I’ve been busy with a translation, a short story competition, and preparing for a new tour guiding job. We also have a visitor, so I’ve been rather busy lately. It should get calmer again soon.
I live on the east of the island, so I get to see sunrises, but the sun sets well behind the ridge of mountains so I never see the sunset from home. I saw this one from my friends’ house. I’ve written 3,500 words of the first draft of Pinch Me, and I have one new article on Medium.com: Cliché-free Description: The Cat’s Meow
Writing on Medium.com clearly isn’t going to make me rich, and it will be some time before tour guiding so I’ve spent much of this week trying to work out how to make some income in the short term. I’m going to look for work as a technical writer. With hindsight, every time I did some tech writing back in my software engineering days, people always said it was good,…
Ros Kind is a long-term email friend, prolific writer, and my mentor for book marketing. Of course, the first requirement for book marketing is to have a good book to sell, and Ros has a new one. Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from and when did you start writing? I was born in a place called South Wigston which is four miles south of Leicester city…
As time went on, cat-nursing got harder and harder. Every day the patient was more animated, and therefore more determined not to swallow any more damn pills or to stay inside any longer. Unfortunately, in his determination to get out, he took to chewing at the cat/flap. I could stop him as long as I was home, but it meant I had to mostly stay inside. I grabbed my chance…
I’m house sitting and cat-nursing. That’s my patient, who had a nasty abscess drained just before his humans were about to leave for a much-needed break. He needs antibiotics twice a day. Could I possibly? OK, so these are the friends who let me use a corner of their office for about a year now, and I’m quite sure I would never have finished three books without that. It’s also…