Q1. What is your favorite word? Flabelliform Q2. What is your least favorite word? accommodation (mainly cos I can never spell it properly) Q3. How has social media helped your career? no career without it (such as it is). Forced me to come out from under my stone and get the privilege of talking to readers before they buy my book, as they buy it, while they read it and after they’ve finished it. Eat your heart out Evelyn Waugh. But it’s also led me to think creatively in new Read more […]

Q1. What is your favorite word? ‘Epic’ at the moment but it changes every couple of months.  Q2. What is your least favorite word? ‘Christ’ when used as an expletive but that could just be that it’s overused by a colleague alllll day. I’m not a big fan of the ‘c’ word either but sometimes it’s the best word for the job. Q3. How has social media helped your career? Social media has allowed me to interact with so many interesting people, and get my writing out to a wider number Read more […]

Q1. What is your favorite word? Trump Q2. What is your least favorite word? Gash Q3. How has social media helped your career? It’s put me in touch with publishers and opened doors for reviews, which has in turn led to a  publisher (small press) contacting me regarding my work-in-progress novel before I’ve even consider querying anyone. It’s also put me in touch with other book bloggers from whom I’ve learnt an awful lot.  It got me close to 3,000 readers for the first draft Read more […]

Q1. What is your favorite word? Dude Q2. What is your least favorite word? No Q3. How has social media helped your career? I think it probably has, yes, certainly in terms of having more people know who I am and what I do. Q4. What would you say are the downsides to social media in your career? Spending too long on it, having people I don’t know send me messages asking me to critique their work (for free) and then getting shirty when I say I don’t have the time. Q5. Read more […]

As a bit of an experiment, I decided recently that it was time to try something new here at The Eloquent Page. Regular readers will know I’ve said before that I love to read, but I’m not a writer. I’ll happily admit however that I’m more than a little bit in awe of anyone who does possess this rare ability. These are my rock stars, the storytellers and the word-smiths. Unsurprisingly, I have an insatiable curiosity about what makes the creative mind function (if I had my way I’d love to rummage Read more […]

Sometime guest reviewer, Sam Strong (@MrSamStrong) recently interviewed author Myke Cole (@MykeCole) on behalf of The Eloquent Page. Before I hand you over, I’d just like to thank to Myke and Sam for the great interview. Thanks guys. ~  ~  ~  ~ Arguably the best known of all role playing game (RPG) systems, Dungeons & Dragons has spawned many clones, transferred itself into every kind of media imaginable and has become nothing short of legendary. The other week, Pat Robertson, chairman Read more […]