M T McGuire, Authorholic

This week I was going to write a blog post about Cory Doctorow’s new kickstarter and give a quick run down of Audible’s new royalty payments system (as far as I understand it, although they aren’t explaining it to anyone with any clarity because obviously, if they did, no-one would agree to it). Then I was going to show the obvious logic as to why my politics are what they are (original floating…

Here I am again. This week I have precisely 10 minutes to finish this post. It’s not going to happen so it may bleed into next week but we shall see. I suppose I just wanted to do a final report on the knitting and say Happy Easter. Easter has been a bit good this year. I sort of feel like I’ve actually hoisted it all in a bit more. Perhaps with the state of international affairs it’s difficult…

Sod it, not just ONE thing! Let’s do TWO things woot! And by explaining those two things, I will also allow you to understand where I have been for the last month. Actually, no. You know where I’ve been … knee surgery. We are now 7 weeks out and I’m walking more or less without a stick; with a stick while out and about, without one in the house … unless I stand too long, then it swells up and I…

As the title suggests, it hasn’t been a great week! First up, I need to explain where I’ve been. You know what? I’ve been inspired to write blogs again and again over the last few weeks but they’ve passed and I’ve failed. There are two reasons for this; one that I was trying to finish the WIP which had reached the edits and alts stage with beta readers doing a sterling job of spotting the many…

Well it’s been a long time so here I am to write a blog post. I have approximately 30 minutes to do it in which doesn’t bode well but here we go. Things have been busy this month. Obvs I mean Christmas. I failed to send cards, although I have bought the calendars and did manage to buy some presents. To be honest, I spent most of the run up to Christmas finishing a book. Yep, The Next One, or…

Into this here blanket what we are holding out and it will be alright … Well it’s been an interesting week and a busy one, not necessarily in the best way although there have been good bits. On the up side, the editing is creeping forward. I’m a third of the way through now! Woot. Go me. On the downside, Real Life just will not fuck off and leave me alone to finish my sodding book. I give you…

Misadventures in food … This week, I felt the urge to write something light and pithy because it seems to me there’s not quite enough of that in the world at the moment. To that end, I thought I’d describe some of the bold culinary experiments I have undertaken recently. So here we go. First up (with apologies to those of you who read my newsletter)… MTM’s adventures in foraging. One thing I…

Well, it’s September, getting towards the end, and I had thought I’d have my book finished by this time FFS! Or at least off to the beta readers. As if. In July I reckoned I had about two chapters to go. I still have about two chapters to go. I do not know what the fuck is going on. Seriously where in the name of Pete did that all that time bloody well go? I have run round like a blue-arsed fly…

The best of times … Yeh I know, steady on! Two blogs in a row. It had to happen sometime I guess. I mean, for starters, you have to learn the name of the trolley, right? Yeh. I’m sure you are all agog. That wasn’t the reason it was one of the best weeks ever though. More on that story … later. The Trolley is named! Oh yes he is. Literally tens of people from my enormous crowd of…

Well peps, it’s been a mighty long time but today I decided it’s high time I blugged a blog, so here I am. Where have I been? Well, on holiday, trying to do some of the stuff I promised I’d do after I’d finished looking after Mum and Dad and … stuff. However, I’ve been trying to use the time I have available to devote to my ‘author career’ to do writing. I think I tend to blog more when there’s…

Hello there, yes, still alive. Things are busy though and I have books to write. I’m determined to publish a bloody book this year if it’s the last chuffing thing I do (and at this rate, it probably will be). As a result I am working on two at once, the dementia memoir the first of the two sequels to Too Good To Be True. Yes, there are going to be two and Lord Vernon is in them as well. The first…

Hello there, yes, still alive. Things are busy though and I have books to write. I’m determined to publish a bloody book this year if it’s the last chuffing thing I do (and at this rate, it probably will be). As a result I am working on two at once, the dementia memoir the first of the two sequels to Too Good To Be True. Yes, there are going to be two and Lord Vernon is in them too. The first of…

It’s Mothering Sunday today, which is British Mother’s day, which is a church holiday, which is why Mother’s day is in May in every other English-speaking country. Mothering Sunday was originally the day when people went back to their ‘mother church’ or in other words, it was the one day a year posh people’s servants were allowed to go home and visit their families. I went to church, because I’m…

Last Monday was an interesting day. The kind of day that makes me wonder what the fuck is going on. Well, no, I mean, I end up thinking that most days—at the moment, I think that every time I watch the news for starters—but I digress, I am talking about on a personal level. Sometimes, though, I wonder if other people’s lives are a bit less chaos-tastic. This is probably no big surprise to you,…

It’s been a while since I contacted anyone, I didn’t do any Christmas cards and things have been a bit higgledy-piggledy this Christmas and New Year. There are reasons but I can’t really talk about them. Suffice it to say there was a death in the family, so this Christmas was pretty much a rinse and repeat of last year. When stuff like this happens, I tend to write about it on my blog. There are…