Usually I can write a blog fairly quickly – something happens or I think of something and basically blurt it out.
But this is a home grown blog. This is me more than it is work. A much harder subject, as it turns out.
It’s Queens Birthday weekend. Wet and miserable – as to be expected.
This morning I updated my profile on The Big Idea and wrote a blog about movies. Actually managed to tell the movie industry off and suggest they make a decent movie out of my books!
You can read it here.
A big pot of homemade vege soup is cooking for dinner tonight and tomorrow (if I’m lucky).
I’ve been floundering in no man’s land recently. Waiting to here back from my editor about book 3 (Exacabyte) – and not feeling like working on book 4 at the moment…
I’ve done a bit of reading. Which is great.
Gotta say I am loving holding MY books. Not loving the lack of support in this country for local authors though. Not loving that at all. Starting to doubt I’ll ever see my books in stores here. Not through lack of trying mind you! Every book shop I could think of was sent a press release. People have fronted up in stores and asked for the books to be ordered. Only to be told bollocks – like they’re only available in the USA. (excuse me while my head explodes… fuc’n crap!!) It smacks of the early press release disaster when the books first came out in eFormat. Despite killerbyte rubbing shoulder with Tom Clancy, Lee Child, Dan Brown, Dean Koontz etc – no one in this country wanted to know. (Or wants to know)
Even the local newspaper ignored the press releases and at least one review written by a former local. (no not me)
Typically – the country has proven itself to not give a flying fuck about kiwi authors who dare to write non-kiwi books.
You’d think a country that buys more Lee Child than anything would at least ask a few questions.
But no.
Let’s pretend I don’t exist.
It’s safer that way.
Best not to cause ripples in the pond.