Why should you worry if your own name… …is hard to spell, pronounce or remember?A writer sells a product, but that product keeps on changing names. Your books or short stories have different titles. What doesn’t change is your name. … Continue reading
Parts 1 here, Part 2 here..What you should NOT take into account when deciding whether or not to use a pseudonym The first letter of your own name: Several people have mentioned that it’s no good having a real surname … Continue reading
.In one sense, I already used a pseudonym. The name I go by – Glenda – is not actually the name I was born with. I disposed of that partly because of the unusual spelling: Glenyce. Few people could get … Continue reading
.This was a question to me from a writer just starting out. And I am going to answer it in bits, because I am too busy to sit down and write a long post this week. So here’s Part One: … Continue reading
A fern shoot on the dark of the forest floor heading for the light.A metaphor for me, writing my way towards the completion of another book? … Continue reading
Grandson The fabulous Raja Brooke – huge, too … Continue reading
…on the stupidity of some of its adherents. In Malaysia there are some folk getting all het up about just who has the rights to the word Allah. Apparently, according to these folk, if a non-Muslim uses the word it … Continue reading
.Remember 9/11? When there was a number of planes involved in a terror attack? You’d think one of the results of that would be this: when a terror attempt is foiled on a plane in the air, other planes in … Continue reading
. Think again. Read this written by Lynn Viehl, which supplies some figures that may surprise you. The truth is that few fiction writers make enough to earn a living from book sales. The only reason I survive is I … Continue reading
.As you should all know, this year the Worldcon 2010 is going to be in Australia. One of the results of this is that more Australians will be able to nominate works for the Hugo Awards (2009 publications), and to … Continue reading
