Book openings

I haven't blogged in a long time, for a variety of reasons, but I was recently given an idea for a post by a friend, thank you Anna Faversham, so here I am doing that post. Over the past five and a half years I have published 9 books in multiple genres and one question...

Why Sharing Your #NotSoPerfectWritingLife Helps Other Writers #MondayBlogs

I never considered the possibility that posting about the occasions when my writing journey hasn't gone quite the way it's supposed to (and occasionally when it's gone totally tits up) could be a good thing. I'll have to try and remember this, it's some great advice.

To Beta Or Not To Beta?

To Beta Or Not To Beta - This is the question to which I now have an answer, and the answer is....To Beta. WHEN I FIRST STARTED PUBLISHING, I was against the idea of using beta readers, for a number of reasons: I was afraid of being told what I had written was rubbish and...

How To Be A Writer: 13 Required Quirks #MondayBlogs #Writer @AkkalonAS

I'm not fussed too much about cats, except the wild jungle variety, but the rest does describe me quite well, I guess I must be a writer.

Filter Words and Crutch Words – plus, how to get rid of them

A great article on things that many of us do wrong with our writing, and some very good advice on how to easily fix the mistakes. I look forward to/dread finding out how often I've made these mistakes in my current book.

A little bit of culture

  As regular followers of my blog will know, I don't often leave the house because of anxiety issues that make it tough for me to be around people, yesterday, however, the weather was so nice that I just had to go outside. After some thought on what to do and where to go, I...

Writing as an autistic person

I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but the other day I had an article I wrote posted on a writer's site and I plum forgot to let you all know about it. Now that I've remembered, here's the link, in case any of you would like to read about what it's like for me...

Coming out

No, this isn't a post about me coming out of the closet, I am not gay, but I am making something of a reveal about myself. As those of you who have been paying attention will know, I write under the pen name of Alex R Carver, because I want to keep my writing and...

An Interview with Kay MacLeod

Welcome to ARCBookblog Kay, it's so nice to have you here, joining me for an interview, first of all, before we get to the questions, why don't you tell me and my readers a little about yourself. Kay - Confession time, I’m a fantasy addict! For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved the concept...

Anti-social vs social media.

I was going to title this post Autism vs Social Media, but that seems unfair to the people who are anti or unsocial but don't have autism or mental health problems as a reason (some people simply prefer to avoid people). I have encountered a number of discussions on Goodreads recently about the need for...