Did it make me want to abandon the world to retreat to peaceful lands and a barren room with a cross and the ever present scent of feral cat pee? No. Did it plant a book idea in my brain? Oh yes, yes it did indeed.
Category: ness talks books
the most appalling ‘heroine’ you ever did read
Her actual desires are, to put it bluntly, as shallow as a flattened teaspoon.
indie publishing and what i wish i’d done differently
I'd hoped that my book would spread like a contagion through word of mouth and develop a cult following without trying to do a jot of marketing. No, I don't harbour delusions of grandeur. Pfft.
slow down & visit a bookshop
It was, naturally, impossible to walk out of the bookshop without purchasing one or two or, possibly, three volumes. Which I did. Who am I but a leaf, drifting on the rivers of fate?
lowered expectations | reading log #3
This year I'm lowering my reading goal to twelve books. Just twelve. I know, I know - gasp, sit down, send for the smelling salts, do whatever you need to do. I'm shocked too.
of words & books 