I have been asked by many people, “When is the next Mik Murdoch book coming out?” While I don’t have a definitive date for the release of the next book, I can assure you, I am working diligently on it. I received my first set of edits back from the publisher in November and I have been writing/rewriting/revising ever since. Why so long? Well, my publisher and I want to give you the best book possible. That and I have this little thing called a day job. I need that to pay my bills and feed my family. I have a self-imposed deadline of the end-of-March to finish this round of edits. Once they are complete, I will be sending […]
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More Adventures in School Visits
Last Monday I had my first paid school visit. Note, I didn’t say, “my first school visit”. That actually happened last month when I spent the morning with a Grade 3 class at Ecole’ Holy Name school. That first visit was done as a donation of time for a school fundraiser. This time, however, I went as an honest-to-goodness paid author. It was done through a Writers In Schools program and I was to do two presentations to two Grade 8 classes Monday morning. Forty-five minutes each in the school library. I’ve known for a few weeks what I was going to talk about: Writing from Experience. I chose that topic because, when I first started to write seriously, I […]
Read moreI Followed Some (Great) Writing Advice
I am a firm believer that every writer is different. What works for you might or might not work for me. That is part of the reason I have interviews with writerly types on Get Published. If enough people tell their personal story to getting their work published, one of the stories might resonate with you. Last week I got some great advice regarding revisions. I have been struggling a bit on my current revisions and I was discussing it with another writer. He said he approaches revisions differently. He treats them as another opportunity to spend time with the characters. Time he wouldn’t ordinarily have. That made it more enjoyable for him. What I was doing wasn’t working so I […]
Read moreRevising Mik Murdoch: The Power Within
As you may or may not know, I’ve been working on revising Mik Murdoch: The Power Within for the past two months. It has been a much more difficult thing to do than writing the original book. That is largely because, with every change I make, I need to first think about how it will impact the book. Does the change need to have anything added earlier so it makes sense? Will it breach some sort of continuiity later? If I add this scene, will I need to dispose of another scene further on? All of these things mean that I am moving at a comparitive snails pace to how quickly I was able to write the book initially. Does […]
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