Jonny Nexus

Category: Writing

  • How Not To Market Your Book Via Twitter

    Marketing a book is hard. I know. I’ve done it, and not necessarily that well. But the other day I came across an attempt so stunningly inept that I felt compelled to talk about – albeit with some attempt to mask identifying details, so I don’t feel like I’m being over-cruel. The principles of using…

  • It Is Done!

    After spending the last three months on the biggest purple patch of my writing life, I now have a complete first draft of the current novel in progress. This morning, at about 7:30 as the train was somewhere around the Three Bridges area, I got to type the words “THE END”. It was rather cool.…

  • My Thoughts On Christopher Priest’s Clarke Awards Broadside

    Christopher Priest is an author whose work I like. While I can’t claim to have read any of his recent works, The Inverted World and especially A Dream of Wessex are on my all-time favourites list. They say you should never meet your heroes, but perhaps in the modern era that aphorism should be revised…

  • Showing Colour-Coded Point Of View (POV) in Scrivener

    I’ve mentioned a few times that I use the rather excellent writers’ word processor Scrivener to write all my fiction. It’s now available on both Mac and Windows, so if you’re into any sort of writing, I’d very much recommend that you give it a spin. One of the great things about Scrivener is the…

  • Yes, It Has Been A Bit Quiet Here

    I’d never claim that this is a regularly updated blog; in the era of Twitter and Facebook, I’m not sure that such a thing is necessarily a worthwhile aspiration let alone endeavor. However, it has always been my intention to use it as a place to post those occasional thoughts, ideas and announcements for whom…

  • Critical Miss Issue 11 Is Here

    After a wait of five and a half years, the fabled eleventh issue of my roleplaying humour webzine Critical Miss has arrived. Click here to read it.

  • An Interesting Benefit Of Having A Paper Version

    At some point in the future, I’m going to write a post explaining the steps I had to follow to get my novel Game Night available on Amazon’s Kindle platform. (It was already available in the traditional “paper” format). But did just want to mention something that I realised / noticed today. When you publish…

  • Game Night on Kindle – How You Can Help Me

    My novel Game Night is now out on the Kindle, priced at what I’d consider to be a bargain launch price of just 99c (or 70p in the UK). I’m not sure what to expect or hope of this. It might prove to be a runaway success, going viral in the way that the paper…

  • Game Night on Kindle: It’s Here!

    I tweeted about this early this morning, but my novel Game Night is now available on the Kindle for a time-limited launch price of 99c in the US and 70p in the UK. Here’s where you can find it: US: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Night-ebook… UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Night-ebook… As part of his I’ve done a press release, reproduced below. Please feel free…

  • Game Night – Coming Soon On Kindle At Special Launch Offer Price

    I’m very pleased to announce that after getting various issues out of the way, my ENnie nominated fantasy humour novel Game Night will be arriving on the Kindle within a couple of weeks. It will be available not only for the standard Kindle, but for Kindle on Android, iPhone and iPad also. A ten-thousand-year quest…