Category: publishing

• Whoring myself out to publishers…

  The wonderful thing about being a writer is the joy you get from putting your heart and soul into a piece of work, spending hours, days, weeks, years poring over it, making it as amazing as possible, as perfect as possible, getting it polished and ready to hand out to the world and then giving…

  July 30, 2022

  A. B. Finlayson, author, publishing, submissions, submitting

• A few things…

  There are now less than seven weeks to go until The Book and the Blade is released into the wild so I thought I’d write a little post in order to give some updates. – pre-orders for the ebook are available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Booktopia, Kobo and more – pre-orders for hardback and…

  July 23, 2022

  A. B. Finlayson, A. Crazy World, author, being an author, blog, diary, publishing, Reviews, TheBookandtheBlade, writing

• Premature ejaculation

  

  Premature Adjective Occurring or done before the usual or proper time; too early. Ejaculation Noun Something said quickly and suddenly. I’ve had a habit of this my whole life (stop giggling and get your mind out of the gutter. We’re using the Queen’s English here). What I mean is, I regularly do or say something…

  July 16, 2022

  A. B. Finlayson, author, being an author, publishing, writing

• In Terms of Terms This is it!

  MY BOOK COMES OUT THIS TERM! As a teacher by day (and a barely functioning man-child by night) much of my life is controlled by bells, schedules and timetables. Even now, during the school holidays, I have a Pavlovian response to sniff out the nearest coffee at 8:15, 10:55 and 3:01, but it’s not just…

  July 2, 2022

  A. B. Finlayson, A. Crazy World, author, being an author, books, publishing, TheBookandtheBlade

• How’s the writing going?

  I get asked this a lot. It’s nice. It’s also a wee bit depressing when the answer is, has been, and will probably continue to be… it isn’t. I have a “work in progress” but instead of my usual all-consuming attacking the keyboard like a starving dog going at a bag of hot chips I’m…

  June 25, 2022

  A. B. Finlayson, author, being an author, blog, diary, publishing, TheBookandtheBlade, Uncategorized, writing

• All Hail Emperor Bezos and Bow Down Before the Amazon Overlords!

  There is no getting around it. Very soon I will have to get on my knees like everyone else in the world and beg for scraps at the feet of Emperor Bezos. As much as I would love The Book and the Blade to be 100% indie… only available in small shops with quirky cafes…

  April 27, 2022

  A. B. Finlayson, A. Crazy World, author, being an author, blog, books, diary, Goodreads, publishing, reading, Reviews, TheBookandtheBlade, writing