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VGarland
- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
Art/writing
I've often thought of the similarities and differences between a visual artist and a word artist, or author. Some art, like some writing...
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VGarland
- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
Friends and books
Do you have any books which you think of like friends? Perhaps you have known them for a long time, and, reliably, they bring you comfort...
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VGarland
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
Back to work!
After I finish a book, I always take a couple of months off before I start the next one. It gives me time to enjoy some reading and to...
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VGarland
- May 21, 2021
- 2 min
World Bee Day
It was World Bee Day yesterday (May 20th) and I thought I would write a little about this fascinating creature which features so...
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VGarland
- May 10, 2021
- 3 min
Reading and Scribing
As I write this blogpost on my laptop computer, I have been musing on the ways in which we, in our world, read and write, and how it...
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VGarland
- Apr 22, 2021
- 2 min
Days, months, years, Ages...
Many readers are especially interested in the way in which the Oramian and Kashiqi calendars are organised and in how they compare to our...
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VGarland
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
Trade in oramia and kashiq
Readers will be familiar with the markets of Oramia and Kashiq, but I thought it might be interesting to write a little more about them,...
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VGarland
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
Travel to Kashiq!
Hi everyone! Once again, apologies for not doing very well at keeping up with my blog! I am resolved to do better! I have great news for...
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VGarland
- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
How's it going?
Hello everyone! I know its been quite some time since I last wrote on my blog, for which I apologise. We have found ourselves in a...
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VGarland
- Jan 8, 2020
- 3 min
belief in oramia
Today's blog post will be around the subject of belief in the land of Oramia which we discover in Flammeus, the first book of The...
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VGarland
- Nov 22, 2019
- 2 min
What about the next book?
So...what everyone wants to know is...how is the next book in The Emberjar series coming along? When will it be out? Can you give us any...
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VGarland
- Oct 14, 2019
- 3 min
can you be an alpha beta reader?
So what is a beta reader, and, perhaps more importantly, how can you be an alpha beta reader? A beta reader is a reader who reads an...
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VGarland
- Sep 30, 2019
- 2 min
Plotter or pantser?
One of the questions you often get asked as an author is how you plan your books. Are you a plotter or a pantser? A plotter is a writer...
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VGarland
- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
Am I In It? Or are you?
One of the things which seems to be of most interest to people when they find out that you have written a novel is the matter of where...
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VGarland
- Aug 28, 2019
- 2 min
The work behind the word count...
People like to ask writers what they have written. Sometimes its a word count they are after. But which words do they mean? For every...
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VGarland
- Aug 17, 2019
- 3 min
Author Assist?
Today's blog focuses on the ways in which friends and supporters of authors, especially indie authors such as myself, can play their part...
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VGarland
- Aug 8, 2019
- 2 min
What? No dragons?
I wanted to write today about the thorny issue of genre and pigeonholing( or should that be dragonholing?) Writing as someone who...
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VGarland
- Aug 1, 2019
- 3 min
Writing is an art...
" Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful...
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VGarland
- Jul 23, 2019
- 1 min
publication day!
The e-book of Flammeus is now live on Amazon! The paperback version will be following shortly, once Amazon have completed their review...
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