Nothing Is Impossible

Added on 04 September 2008

One more day of school holidays... Then the weekend... Then there’s only actually one hour of school - which the parents are supposed to attend - on the first day... And then school starts on the 9th. Just in time for mid-term break. Things are getting a little edgy during the long days in the...

Four weeks later...

Added on 01 September 2008

Monday evening, 1st September. The children should have been going back to school today, but the school decided to take an extra week off so they could rebuild the kitchen. Not that they took 5/185ths off the fee. So we have a ninth week of summer holiday. So far everyone remains sane. This is not a...

It'll Be OK On The Night

Added on 11 July 2008

Well, it's done at last. Book written, edited, copy edited, proof-read, converted to pdf, dispatched to the printer. Had to force myself to let go. Could have gone on endlessly, tinkering, correcting, changing. Finally made myself press send. One of the things which had been picked up in the copy ed...

YouTube

Added on 30 June 2008

As part of my extensive advertising budget, I spent a few hours at the weekend putting together a 35 second promo clip to put on YouTube. I may not have an advertising budget of a Harry Potter book, but I have a Mac and some sound effects... Click here to follow the YouTube link. I have the comments...

Economics Can Be Fun...

Added on 17 June 2008

Long Midnight Publishing being the multinational publishing giant that it is, I have been able to produce a flyer for Lost in Juarez, at costs of upwards of a hundred and twenty pounds. (Now there's a marketing budget to make HarperCollins and Transworld shake in their boots.) The bulk of the flyers...