The Beautiful Books – NaNoWriMo 2017

What inspired the idea for your novel, and how long have you had the idea? I've been working on the Pushing Boundaries project for two years now. Describe what your novel is about! I have a blurb for it: Operation Nightshade is about to commence, the undercover operatives are moving into position and the target … Continue reading The Beautiful Books – NaNoWriMo 2017

Monthly Forecast: October 2017

In the Southern Hemisphere, October is the time of Spring, hence the flowers (no, I am not bitter how purely American things such as pumpkin spice lattes are dominating social media, what makes you think that?). For this month, my October Reading List is more spooky themed than floral themed, however, I have made sure … Continue reading Monthly Forecast: October 2017

Writing Update: A Request for Beta Readers

I'm going to be honest, my writing isn't doing well these days, I just... feel really lost and meh about pretty much everything related to Novel Writing. I'm considering taking Canis Major down from Smashwords, I probably should have done this already, but everything feels overwhelmingly difficult right now. The idea of committing to another … Continue reading Writing Update: A Request for Beta Readers

PSA For Indie Authors – Part 3: Genres and Cover-art

This post is about self-promotion and marketing for Beginner Writers who want to write Genre Fiction or Genre novels, so if that doesn’t appeal to you, fair enough, feel free to pass on this post. This post will be covering basic tips and advice so this post may come across as stating the obvious, however, … Continue reading PSA For Indie Authors – Part 3: Genres and Cover-art

The Beautiful Books #25: June

Image Description: an image of a white notepad with light-blues with a dark-blue pen. At the top of the picture is text in dark-blue, “beautiful people for writers”. Down the bottom of the picture is text in dark-blue, "hosted by http://www.paperfury.com and http://www.furtherup-and-furtherin.blogspot.com" Another monthly update on my Pushing Boundaries WIP Novel Project. I'm going … Continue reading The Beautiful Books #25: June

The Beautiful Books #24: Parental Edition

Image Description: an image of a white notepad with light-blues with a dark-blue pen. At the top of the picture is text in dark-blue, "beautiful people for writers". Down the bottom of the picture is text in dark-blue, "hosted by http://www.paperfury.com and http://www.furtherup-and-furtherin.blogspot.com" Welcome to another edition of The Beautiful Books, a writing prompt link-up … Continue reading The Beautiful Books #24: Parental Edition

The Beautiful Books #23: March 2017

Welcome to another installment of The Beautiful Books, where I bather on about my current WIP Novel Project, which would be Orion - Volume II in the Pushing Boundaries series (yeah, I know, it says Scorpius is the title of Volume II on the Pushing Boundaries link page, clearly I need to change that, Scorpius … Continue reading The Beautiful Books #23: March 2017

The Beautiful Books #22: February 2017

  Last year when I answered these questions, the couple I chose to focus on was Beth and James, however, this time around I'd like to focus on another couple. This time I'd like to focus on my side-characters, Mac and Cassie, this is because in an indirect way they've managed to spark the catalysts … Continue reading The Beautiful Books #22: February 2017

Beautiful Books ~ 2017 Writing Goals

Image Description: A close up picture of a type-writer with the heading of "beautiful books: a link up for writers" up the top of the image. At the bottom of the image is the website urls for Paper Fury and Further Up and Further In What were your writing achievements last year? ~Self-published my first … Continue reading Beautiful Books ~ 2017 Writing Goals

My Treasure Chest – Part 3: What I Got For Christmas

Image Description: a collection of gifts wrapped in Christmas themed wrapping paper (I’ll go into detail within the post). What can be seen is a large Kids &Co. multi-coloured large bouncy ball, a pink pig critter puff, a pink and yellow slinky, a large blue balloon filled with flour, a pink circle with raised dots … Continue reading My Treasure Chest – Part 3: What I Got For Christmas