Tag: indie writers

Paranormal steampunk fiction? Can the Red Chair cope?

August 23, 2011
Shéa MacLeod once told her mother she wished life was more exciting.  It was only later she realized you should be careful what you wish for.  Her adventures have led her from the Scottish Highlands to the shores of Maui.  She’s tried belly dancing and samba.  She’s been a soap maker and candy seller.   She even tried her hand at massage therapy.  And she knows how to milk a goat.  Shéa is the author of urban fantasy post-apocalyptic scifi paranormal romances with a twist of steampunk.  
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Indie? You’re joking! How could you!

August 19, 2011

I was thinking today (I do that sometimes) what would have happened if I had never ever taken up the offer of publication in 2008, when YWO.com set up their print publishing scheme for new writers.

Taking advice from the indie faerie!

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The Big Red Chair…

July 15, 2011

I started interviewing independent authors  in my Big Red Chair a little while ago. I began with the inestimable Ann Swinfen whose books are such a delightful discovery. I have interviewed SJA Turney whose Roman fiction is so full of imperial drama and life. Lucinda Brant has allowed herself to be scrutinised… she who could justifiably take up Georgette Heyer’s crown. And I have others to come:  hot property coauthors Mark Williams and Saffina Desforges and also Barbara Silkstone who is an electric author who thinks outside the square. That’s something I admire in a writer.

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