Ewan's blog

Lots to choose from this week and, naturally many had a Remembrance Sunday connection. However, amongst the prose, I was struck by Noo's nihilistic story about, well, I'll leave you to decide what this well-crafted oddity, Passive Voice, is about. Poem of the week does have a Remembrance Sunday theme, this wonderful poem Mesopotamia by Philip Sidney is about a lesser known campaign and all the more powerful for it. The Inspiration Point is here...

I recently bought this book directly from an Unbound author that I met at book launch in Manchester. It is a collection of poetry that is funny, touching and sometimes sad. As far as I'm aware, thus far it is the only book of poetry that Unbound has published, though that is soon to change. Pineapples in the Pool explores ancient and modern themes, including love, the internet and home (whatever that means). Look out for where the title appears...

Gibbous House News...

All you lovely people who have pledged for No Good Deed are entitled to enter this competition to receive a bundle of No Good Deed goodies. Competition runs for one week here

One month in... 26%. What that means.

As some of you will know, my first novel, “Gibbous House” began life here on ABCTales many moons ago and was published by Unbound in January of last year. Unbound have agreed to take on the sequel, “No Good Deed”, which was also developed on ABCTales, subject to reaching its crowd-funding target. I know many ABCtalers are not rich - neither am I, if I’m honest – but if any of you do feel able to pre-order/pledge/become a patron of No Good Deed,...

Not Writing . Read, that’s all. The more you read the better your writing will be. Read a (very) few books generally acknowledged to be bad writing. Work out why people say this about them. Read the books your parents and grandparents had to read at school and books by their writers’ contemporaries. (You may be offended, that’s fine. Learn to read with detachment, it’s a good skill to have). Make notes about what you read, or what has inspired...

Went to market... Or maybe it was a goat. I thought I was a writer but...

Well, I've plastered it all over Facebook and Twitter and pestered friends by e-mail. What's left? A heads-up to any ABCTalers who still remember me? Or a message in a bottle? These may be the same thing. ABC's next joint venture with Unbound is a historical novel with a difference. A strombolian mash-up of gothic tropes and a sardonic, if not always entirely self aware narrator. By the way, he murders people - and we're not really sure who he...