by Paul Stephenson | Dec 21, 2020 | Books, Self Publishing, Writing, Writing Chronicles
The cataclysmic shitstorm that has been 2020 makes the whole idea of a ‘look back’ blog post a bit of a pointless exercise, but I’m nothing if not committed – I’ve been doing these accountability posts for about a decade now, I think, and just because I’ve been stuck...
by Paul Stephenson | Jun 30, 2020 | Books, News, Self Publishing, Writing Chronicles
Like a lot of creatives, I’ve spent a lot of this global pandemic reassessing almost every aspect of what I do. I started off with a huge slab of enthusiasm that I was privileged enough to be able to hole up in my house with laptop in hand and spend the months...
by Paul Stephenson | Jul 29, 2019 | Books, General, Writing, Writing Chronicles
It’s all go here at Hollow Stone Towers (my kitchen table) at the moment, so I thought I’d let you know where things are with the next few books I’m working on, when things are due, that sort of thing.SunriseBook one of the Sunset Chronicles has now been sent to my...
by Paul Stephenson | May 8, 2019 | Blood on the Motorway, Books, Self Publishing, Writing Chronicles
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash I’ve hit a couple of milestones in my indie author career in the last few weeks. Firstly, Blood on the Motorway, my first novel, is three years old. Well, it’s a lot older than that if you include its protracted initial...
by Paul Stephenson | Mar 11, 2019 | Self Publishing, Writing, Writing Chronicles
A few years back, as I was getting ready to unleash my first novel on the world all dewy-eyed and full of optimism, I wrote a blog post about self-publishing. If you’re not sure what that is, it’s the revolution in publishing that meant I was about to finally realise...