Once again, I have to thank Jim Murdoch for giving me the idea for this post (and believe me, when it comes to thinking up ideas for this blog, I need all the help I can get). A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about editing. To be honest, I find editing a bit

Writing fantasy is really fun. It’s really enjoyable to create brand new worlds that have never before been explored. It’s great fun to populate them with the strangest types of residents you can think of, and then set them off to see what they’ll get up to. It’s a process you can totally get lost

It always amazes me how much other people know. And these people must know a lot, because they’re always making sure everyone else knows about it. They’re always talking about how they do this or they do that, or (more often) they’ve done this or done that already. And really well, to boot. Not only

I’m working on editing at the moment. It may not sound it, but it’s actually pretty exciting, because it means that I’m on the home stretch. The work in question is the latest in the strange adventures of Neville Lansdowne. Recall that he fell off the world in Doodling and he pushed the world out

It’s always a pleasure to have guests here at Dag-Lit Central. Today I’m pleased to have Tim Flanagan here, talking about how to visually involve the reader. Stand above the crowd – visually involve the reader! How can you create something that stands out from the crowd? Especially when the number of books increases on