February 2010

Bard on your internet radio dial

February 19, 2010

Erotica a la carte has been lots of fun on Radio Dentata- and so it was lovely to be approached by Sean Owens of IRFT Celtic Radio about bringing Chasing the Bard to their station. My celtic roots run deep with ancestors both Scottish and Irish. My two trips to Scotland were some of the [...]

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Ready for the Boom

February 18, 2010

Most of my readers will know by now that this year began very badly for Tee Morris. He is now facing raising his daughter, affecitonately known as SonicBoom by himself after the death of her mother. Many donated to the ChipIn fund which helped with the immediate expenses surrounding Natalie’s death, and even left a [...]

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Dealing with slings and arrows

February 13, 2010

A recent Twitter conversation started by Scott Roche about public critique, specifically for podcast novels got me thinking about critiques, flames and feedback. I replied to Scott that as an author you have to expect to get all three. So here’s my take on dealing with them as an author. The middle one Flames are [...]

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Tropes and bards

February 12, 2010

The wonderful DDog has just added  Chasing the Bard to TV Tropes website and it was a very interesting thing for me as the writer to read. A trope is a common pattern or theme and they have been around since humanity first decided that telling stories was a great idea. Some of the ones [...]

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Litopia and the nemesis

February 11, 2010

Last week I had the honour of being one of the panel on Litopia After Dark. Hanging with the wonderful folks and talking writing was a lot of fun. I was a little nervous, but the panel made me feel at home very quickly. Peter and Litopia do a great deal for the writing community- [...]

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Visionaries

February 5, 2010

Podioracket has been doing great work to promote and help podiobook authors. How Heather, Rhonda and the gang do it all I don’t know. So when I was invited to be part of their first Anthology series I was very flattered. This series aims to expose listeners to a range of authors work, but rather [...]

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