Tag: diary

• That was some year! (written in June 2021)

  It has been just over a year since I woke up one morning to an email from some lovely people in The States who told me they wanted to publish my little book. A year! 2020. Nothing much happened there, right? Just an ordinary, boring, humdrum kind of year. So I thought I’d let you…

  April 9, 2022

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

• It’s easy to get a publisher, right?

  It turns out I keep this online diary almost as consistently as I keep my personal diary, i.e. hardly ever. This is quite normal for me. I seem to work in flurries of madness separated by long periods of nothing. Well, I say nothing, but the old noggin is always ticking over. It’s like a…

  April 9, 2022

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

• Before The Book and the Blade

  I wrote six books before I started work on The Book and the Blade. They were not great. One, two and three were terrible in fact. Four showed some small promise but floundered (drowned) in the middle. Five was a present for my kids that I’m still happy with, and six was a silly thing…

  April 9, 2022

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

• The Idea

  I had the idea for The Book and the Blade nearly 20 years ago and it hurts me to write that! When I was 18 I started University in York and one of the drawcards for the city was the rumoured 365 pubs… one for every day of the year. There’s a famous street called…

  April 9, 2022

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

• The Start

  

  In the beginning… 31/1/19 I started writing the York ghost story last night… finally! I’m not entirely convinced by the tone yet and it’s a bit cliched but I’m happy I’ve started. The characters are taking shape and I have an idea of where the story is heading. It feels so good to write fiction…

  April 9, 2022

  A. B. Finlayson, A. Crazy World, blog, diary, TheBookandtheBlade, writing