Category: TheBookandtheBlade

• At least when I write stories I (mostly) control what happens…

  A new post on the old website about not being able to control anything and Australia Post being total gits.

  April 3, 2023

  A. B. Finlayson, Albert the Great Australian Dragon, author, being an author, blog, books, TheBookandtheBlade, writing

• Fly my pretty!

  Reflections on launching a book into the ether At one point on Saturday I found myself sitting on the floor of a raised stage while all around me people I knew, people I’d just met, and people I’d never seen before talked and laughed and drank together. The pub was full, a long narrow hall…

  March 13, 2023

  A. B. Finlayson, A. Crazy World, author, being an author, blog, TheBookandtheBlade

• What a week!

  This is the week it finally happened, folks… I became a ‘writer’. Oh, sure, I’ve been writing like an addict for years, and I’ve been telling stories since before I could read them (just ask my mam), but on the 28th February my debut novel was released into the wild. For me, that is a…

  March 4, 2023

  TheBookandtheBlade

• A SOMETHING of SOMETHING and SOMETHING

  I feel like I’ve missed a trick with The Book and the Blade. It would seem that I did not get the memo regarding the standard structure of novel titles in the contemporary market. Absolutely everything seems to be some combination of A____ of_____ and _______ , and with less than ten days to go…

  February 19, 2023

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

• I have news!

  What a crazy end to the year it has been! My first novel, THE BOOK AND THE BLADE, was originally slated for release in September of this year but of course that didn’t happen for a myriad of reasons. The new publication date is the 28th February, 2023, which bizarrely means my “debut” novel will…

  December 23, 2022

  A. B. Finlayson, author, being an author, books, Christmas story, kindle, publishing, reading, Reindeer Games, Rock Zombie, TheBookandtheBlade, writing

• Flibbertygibbets and jiggerypokery

  A lot has happened in a short space of time so I thought I’d write a little post to let everyone know what the flibbertygibbets is going on. – The Book and the Blade has a new release date – February 28th, 2023. I’ve known for quite a while that this was going to happen…

  August 18, 2022

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