Category: Interviews

New interview, with comedy excerpt

6/27/2013

Just a quick one. There's a new interview with me up on Indie Author Land, which can be read here.

It mostly covers Journey to Altmortis, and the interviewer also has a cunning F1 suggestion when it comes to betting. At the end there's a link to the initial draft of the start of my short comedy. Although I've amended it slightly since then the start is very, very similar, and it gives a good indication of the central character and the general style of comedy used.

[For those wondering the comeyd's coming along pretty well. I've almost finished the full first draft, but there will, of course, but a couple of redrafts to come].

So, I hope you peruse the interview and enjoy the excerpt.

Thaddeus

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Forthcoming interview, links and techwoe

6/11/2013

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Things have been a bit tricky lately. Yesterday the computer took umpteen tries to actually start, today it was fine, tomorrow a tech chap comes to peer into its Neolithic interior. Hopefully it'll be a tiny problem that can immediately be fixed, but I may disappear for a time.

On a much happier note, an interview of myself should be up on http://www.indieauthorland.com/, a delightful site, with a date pencilled-in for 27 June. Obviously I'll promote it at the time if I can, but I thought I'd mention it now in case my computer explodes the day before.

I'm also going to do a little bit of trimming of this site. Including all the book-buying links on both the Links and Book Stuff tabs seems a little excessive (especially as there are so many), so I'm going to have them only on the Book Stuff tab from now on. Given that most people browsing this site have either bought or are at least aware of my books (Bane of Souls and Journey to Altmortis, to date) I don't expect it to affect sales and it will make the site a bit tidier.

Progress has been a bit slower of late, partly due to the computer issues. I have made a start on Chapter 8 of the comedy, and although I've not written much I'm pretty happy with what's there. I'm also largely pleased with Ch7, although one scene at least needs a major rewrite (in solitude it works ok but it doesn't fit with the rest of the story).

Thaddeus

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Marketing Stuff

1/4/2013

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With Bane of Souls, I've learnt a few things about matters peripheral to actual writing. I fluked my way to a great artist and cover, and also cocked up a few areas.

The largest of these is marketing. Now, if you read that word and immediately felt the dread coiling like a python of tedium then you had the same reaction as me.

I actually started writing Journey to Altmortis a month or two before Bane of Souls came out. This wasn't a cunning plan, I'd just left the cover art to the end and had nothing else to do... or so I thought.

What I should've been doing is trying to get interviews and reviews to promote the book. How well that would've worked I don't know, but it can only have helped. For a self-published chap, even one who writes characters as delightful as Captain Urquhart, the first and probably biggest hurdle to overcome is getting noticed at all.

But I didn't do that. I did get some reviews, all 4*, on Amazon, and really enjoyed reading what people thought. A more concerted effort to get reviews on blogs and other sites would've helped, the question is only how much or how little.

Anyway, my plan at the moment is, after Altmortis is out, to try and spend a few weeks at least promoting it with interviews and reviews and so forth. With luck, there'll also be a chain effect, with people who enjoy Altmortis then going on to buy Bane of Souls.

Speaking of which, I've done two more interviews, which can be found at the below addresses:

http://blog.pauldorset.com/2012/12/author-interview-thaddeus-white.html

http://joeypinkney.com/amazoncom/5-minutes-5-questions-with-thaddeus-white-author-of-bane-of-souls.php

Thanks to both Mr. Dorset and Mr. Pinkney.

As for writing, I'm still working through the to-do list for the present redraft, but the largest individual bits of new material have all been writing. 3 out of 4 work well and I've slotted them into the 20 chapters, but the 4th seems a little off.

Thaddeus

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An interview and some updates

12/4/2012

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I've just done my first interview (as the chap answering the questions) with the delightful Mia Darien, which can be found here: http://www.miadarien.com/ten-questions-with-thaddeus-white/

I know from experience it can be quite hard thinking of good questions to ask, but I rather enjoyed answering them.

On the writing front, I've got a little bit of the final chapter to redraft, and then it's on to writing new bits and considering some (mostly small but) significant changes. And, of course, rejigging what's there so that it flows better. I'll probably increase the number of chapters as well, as they're probably a bit on the long side.

Thaddeus

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New interview, with comedy excerpt

Forthcoming interview, links and techwoe

Marketing Stuff

An interview and some updates

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New interview, with comedy excerpt

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and writing, particularly fantasy and classical history. I'm also quite into F1 and politics and have no idea why this section is double-spaced.