Recent content by MrDisco88

Steve Cavanagh's Thirteen. Would absolutely recommend. He does courtroom dramas as well as anybody except, perhaps, Grisham.

I haven't, but will do so now!

Hello, I haven't posted here in quite a long time, but I just wanted to say thank you to the Colony as a whole, and a few individuals more specifically, for advice that I haven't replied to, or said thank you for, but have nonetheless benefitted from. As a *relatively* young writer, I, perhaps...

Hi all, For anyone who's interested, the Greenhouse Prize is open to unpublished, unagented authors. Manuscript must have elements of humour, and can be anything from a picture book up to YA. There is no entry fee. Full details here I just sent off my submission. Good luck to anyone else who...

When listening to a youtube video by Stephen King, he said something along the lines of "notepads are a great way to immortalise bad ideas". I get most of my ideas while walking, and find that the less good ideas fade and the best ideas continue to burn until I've had a chance to write.

The Prince of Nothing trilogy by Scott Bakker is incredible, I can't proselytize enough about entering Bakker's universe, though it is a dark and twisted place. Will particularly appeal to fans of Dune, to which it owes quite a lot. I tried Sanderson's Mistborn series recently. Powered through...

I can't contribute anything from an agent's perspective, obviously. But I will say this as a reader (talking specifically about fiction here). There are three things available to me that will determine whether or not I pick a book up and read the blurb: the title, the cover and the name of the...

Just to do some proper writing. Any at all! Between sending out to agents and writing backstory for my series, I haven't done proper writing in three weeks.

Just to add to the love, really enjoyed your submission. In a few places it actually put me in mind of A Confederacy of Dunces, which as one of my all time favourite books, is about as a high a compliment as I can pay!

Thanks both! I will have a think about " Secrets in the Sky, Book 1 of the Tellurian Apocalypse" and "Moon Shadows, Book 1 of the Tellurian Apocalypse" Tim, you are right RE Amber Wolf. This was the original title, and I want to move away from it, but kept it in there as a point of comparison.

On a slightly (but not totally) unrelated note, I have as part of my writing (specifically a totally un-publishable short story I've had a lot of fun writing) been thinking about the male and female brain, it was prompted by investigation into the question as to whether the male brain is more...

Actually I suppose it's two queries, one general, one specific. What have been your processes for finding a good title for your novels? Was it something that just came to you, or did you work at it (and if so, how?). I submitted to Pop-Up submissions and received feedback to the effect that my...

I think it depends on what the day job actually consists of. I have found two things to be anathema to prductive writing: spending significant time commuting and working as a copywriter. After spending all day writing marketing stuff, I hardly ever wanted to to sit down and write. Other jobs...

When writing my own novel I found that i had this problem with peripheral female characters. With peripheral characters I am trying to capture someone's essence without giving then much in the way of plot, but the effect can be that a personality is being extrapolated from someone's physical...

I've worked as an editor (magazines), and there is simply no substitute for getting someone else to edit for you. No amount of distance from your own work (achieved through either time or some kind of psychological trickery) seems to overcome the fact that as the author you know what your...