November Novel #4
The final book in the series is Hunting the Phoenix. Journalist Alma Halsey chases the story of a lifetime to Providence, Rhode Island and finds more than she expected – an old lover, Charles Milburn,...
View ArticleHappy Holidays!
Wishing all Pressers of the Word a splendid holiday, however celebrated! Followed by an inspired 2020! And another reason to celebrate… The Smashwords End of Year Sale December 25th 2019 through...
View ArticleThe True Price of a Book
Self-published authors often see advice about pricing their books — not too cheap, not too expensive, as though there’s a Goldilocks price for an ebook. I’ve seen 2.99 to 4.99 recommended as ebook...
View ArticlePictures for Several Thousand Words, Part 1
Somewhere in the process of becoming an indie author, I discovered I enjoy messing around with images. I’m not talking about the photos of my garden I post on the blog. I hardly ever do any...
View ArticleJust Released: Tales from the Annexe
Seven stories from Audrey Driscoll’s Herbert West Series… The Nexus A 101-year-old professor reminisces about about his most memorable—and dangerous—student, Herbert West. Fox and Glove To win a bet...
View ArticleReading Aloud: “Fox and Glove”
Here is a video of me reading* the first few scenes of “Fox and Glove,” one of the stories in Tales from the Annexe. If you want to read the rest of the story, Tales from the Annexe is free on Amazon...
View ArticleHow (Not) to Write a Series
The Herbert West Series began with an obsession-driven novel, The Friendship of Mortals. When that was finished, I didn’t want to say goodbye to the main character so wrote another really long book set...
View ArticleAnother Look at The Friendship of Mortals
After reading a post on Story Empire about Amazon A+ content, I decided to create some images for that purpose. At the very least, I thought, it was a good reason to mess around with Canva. They have...
View ArticleA New Cover Image…
…for The Herbert West Series Complete. It’s a so-called “box set” of all four ebooks of the series, available on Amazon and other ebook stores. This is the old image. The colours are associated with...
View ArticleNovember Novel #3
The third book in the series is Islands of the Gulf Volume 2, The Treasure Abandoned and abused, young Herbert West resorts to drastic measures to survive. At Miskatonic University, he becomes a...
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