September 24, 2020

Inventing Stuff – Archipelagos

One of the interesting aspects of writing fiction is that, unless you decide to use existing locations, you have to invent stuff. For Books of Loukas, I decided fairly early on that although the locations would bear more than a passing resemblance to places I have visited or which I know about, I would not, except in the broadest geographical sense, use real places. Instead I would invent places, although I wanted them to be […]

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Anatomy of a Belem Knight Novelette cover

I thought I would share my thought process behind the working cover for a novelette that I (Belem, not that staid and more conventional Rupert guy) wrote over the Christmas period. Synopsis:  Nikki is invited to a very different type of Christmas party where she and her friend Carole, among other people, will be the Christmas gifts, to be presented to other party guests for their delectation and delight. The photo:   I purchased this from

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Revising your book after publication

I was involved in a brief discussion this morning about whether one should revise an ebook after publication. My answer was:  Of course. One of the supposed massive advantages of a digital publication medium is that you can update ebooks. At least one ebook that I purchased some time ago, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki, was updated a few years after its initial publication. I was notified by Amazon that the book had been

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