Recent content by ChrisLewando

I recently posted my novel 'If Aliens Could Swim' on Goodreads, and got my first review (from an unknown reader!), and simply wanted to share: ***** Loved it. I would give it ten stars if I could. This is the best written, best edited and best plotted book that I have read in a year. Highly...

Hi, I've recently been building two websites, one for pure romance, and one for the other stuff. Initially I did it as one website with a pick your genre' opening, but much reading on the subject has made me believe romance readers don't want other stuff, and other stuff readers don't believe...

Jesus wept. I'm actually shrinking. Physically, but hopefully not mentally.

It's a bit sad to think like that. If you write, you write. In the public eye the only thing that matters is having been published, and how much dosh you make from it, but to be sure there are some pretty poor writers who have'achieved' that as well as some excellent ones. I have more...

I simply don't get twitter. Farcebook is bad enough, everybody posting, no-one reading. But we all need time out to communicate in whichever way rocks our boat. Writing always was a lonely business, and the internet does bring us together - if it doesn't become a drug habit.

OK, so. I'll give one a shot... Post up the format you would need to receive it in. And suggestions on freeware for recording.

No, the kid's book was never published. Not good enough, in fact, though I wasn't aware of that at the time.

Glad they don't ask me what aftershave I wear!!!

As Paul says, a lot of published novels have prologues, despite the fact that it's apparently a no-no. It surely depends upon its value and context? I actually like a prologue. Am I unusual in this? A good one can provide an undercurrent of foreshadowing that hangs, waiting for its moment to...

Well, if the response bounced back, too, the person in question is not only unable to take criticism, but is a coward. To throw out a malicious dart, then slam the door shut is the action of a child having a tantrum. Responses to criticism should always be put on a back burner until the...

There is a free book available on manuscript submission that might be of interest.... https://www.authorspublish.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Authors-Publish-Guide-to-Manuscript-Submission-Second-Edition.pdf

Those conditions bar people who don't subscribe? Or have I misread?

Well done for fighting your way out of the alco-pit. I empathise with the memory thing. I was born in the fiftes with Rh syndrome, which is an autoimmune condition, the body fighting its own blood, basically. Not that people knew what it was back then. It also resulted in physical problems with...

Life is full of colourful people and scenarios, some amusing, some sad, some not nice experiences, but all added to the grand confusion that is life. If I wrote them into my books, people would say, that's too far-fetched, or, someone that nasty isn't believable. But all these little scenarios...