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New horror book by me.
๐80 Irish setting
๐พEldritch monster
๐คกDisguised as imaginary friend
๐ฆChild in danger
๐จPart horror part mystery
๐ฅผEvil scientists
๐ฎโโ๏ธUnlikely teacher/cop team try to save the town
It'd make my day You can get MAW for ยฃ2.99 ๐๐
amazon.co.uk/Maw-J-P-Stewartโฆ
An editor once told me that editors are absolutely the right people to spot what isnโt working in your story.
What he also told me was that editors are also absolutely not the right people to tell you how to fix it.
That's something the writer has to figure out.
"Did parents really let you roam free when you were young?"
I got sent by myself to cross a busy road to a corner shop with a fiver in my pocket to buy my mum cigarettes. I was six.
My sister got hit by 3 cars and our parents only know about one of them.
Its all true
I do not want to be a famous writer.
Most writers I know are repulsed by the idea of fame.
We just want folks to read and enjoy our stories. That's it.
I'm going to say something controversial that will probably make other millennial gamers incredibly angry but....
Final Fantasy 9 is better than Final Fantasy 7 in just about every way in terms of gameplay, story, and characters.
7 has Sephiroth. And he's overrated.
In secondary school (more than 25 years ago...) this was my reading list for English Lit:
To Kill a Mocking bird
Macbeth
Jude the Obscure
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Metaphysical Poetry
Death of a Salesman
The Merchant of Venice
What was yours cuz I think times have changed?
Book marketing lessons 101.
Likes on Tweets =/= pre-orders or sales.
Everyday's a schoolday for me ๐
I don't tweet about anime much but I do wonder if these days those awesome TeamFourStar people ever toy with the idea of picking it up again and white-knuckling through a DBS Abridged arc.
I'm just excited and grateful to finally have a book coming out. It might sink without a trace and that's fine, to be honest.
The dream was to acfually finish a manuscript, put my name on a real book cover, and send it out into the world, and I'm delighted with that.
J.P. Stewart ๐ retweeted
New horror book by me.
๐80 Irish setting
๐พEldritch monster
๐คกDisguised as imaginary friend
๐ฆChild in danger
๐จPart horror part mystery
๐ฅผEvil scientists
๐ฎโโ๏ธUnlikely teacher/cop team try to save the town
It'd make my day You can get MAW for ยฃ2.99 ๐๐
amazon.co.uk/Maw-J-P-Stewartโฆ
Question for writers who have run the indie/self-pub gambit and also gone down thr trad / small press contract route....
What did you like and dislike about each route?
#writing
Buying loads of copies of your own indie book and "gifting" them unsolicited to family members at Christmas are totally legit sales, actually.
J.P. Stewart ๐ retweeted
I might have decided to publish my first wee book. If you like the sound of an eldritch horror creature masquerading as the imaginary friend of an innocent child in a cosy Irish setting with a good old fashioned race against time.... maybe pre-order MAW?
"You're a writer? Wow. What's that like?"
"When you finish writing most of your time is spent trying to get people to look at your writing and then waiting for them to tell you what's wrong with the writing."
I'm one of those "small accounts that shout into the void" so when one of my tweets gets more than 7 likes I have to sit down and take a breath.


