Last night my friend Claire launched her English-language blog – Scribblings.
Now Claire being Claire, I guess her new blog (she already runs one in Italian) has been meticulously planned, insightfully designed and thoroughly tested, the pros and cons carefully evaluated.
I point this out not to make fun of Claire (who, apart from being a fine writer and a dear friend, is also one of my gorgeous but unflinching editors); I’m pointing it out to explain that I think Claire started working on her new blog well before the summer, early in 2013.
Which is more or less when Karavansara was launched (with far less planning and thought, admittedly), and when a lot of other Italian bloggers I know started looking at the outer world – some opening a new weblog, others simply starting to post in English on their old platform, some alternating posts in Italian and English on their blogs, others posting bilingual content, experimentally. Continue reading
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Writing Prompt – The Letter
Calligraphy
I do not have Idea where this pictures comes from (pointers welcome), but it sure works as a prompt – for anything from fantasy to espionage by way of romance.
What’s the story here?
Original ideas do not exist
Foiled again!
But enjoy your fleeting triumph while you can, J.O. Quinliven!
Next time, I will get to the title first!
LOL!
And i actually changed the title of my story!
Thanks to my friend Andrea Sfiligoi for pointing out this old cover to me.
Oh, and in case you are curious (what the heck, I was!), there’s a great collection of mr Quinliven’s stories from the thirties (including Brides of the Swamp God), available through Amazon.com: Terror Tales J. O. Quinliven
Check it out!
Looks like pricing ebooks at 1.99 is a bad idea, after all.
Interesting article on the readers’ perception of quality based on pricing.
Don’t price your ebook at $1.99
This is the right link to post, having just published a new book!
Highly recommended.
Why Failure is the New Black, and How To Wear it
Bride of the Swamp God!
Bride of the Swamp God
It’s 276 AD, in the Roman province of Aegypt.
And in a late summer night, the stars are coming right.
In the swamps of the Nile’s delta, after strange aeons the sleeping Isfet is about to wake.
Young and ambitious, Aegyptian princess Amunet is here to become theBride of the God.
But she is not alone, as she descends in the depth of the lost temple: many are seeking the power of Betentacled Isfet to make it their own.
Sestus Cornelius Aculeo, centurion of the Second Traian Legion, is not one of them.
His problems are simple, their solution is equally simple.
But before the sun rises, Isfet will meet its Bride – and the problems of Aculeo & Amunet will become very complicated.
Sword & sorcery done the old way, Bride of the Swamp God
Available now everywhere, through Amazon, in DRM-Free Kindle format.
Bride of the Swamp God – the cover
OK, let’s try and amp the hype a little.
Here’s the cover of my forthcoming ebook, Bride of the Swamp God.
Which, as I think you can guess, has something to do with Ancient Egypt, and with tentacles.
And swamps and brides, I guess.
The cover uses some free resources provided by zememz – check out her pages on DeviantArt.
The lettering is by Giordano Effrodini.
Related articles
- Ancient Egyptian Art @ Museum of Fine Arts (sohflo.wordpress.com)
- File under ‘hype’ – a new story coming soon (karavansara.wordpress.com)
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