Writing is only the beginning. This collection explores the realities of authorship—craft, publishing pathways, and the uneasy balance between art and visibility. From shaping narrative to navigating markets, these posts examine what it means to be an author in a landscape where storytelling and self-promotion increasingly collide.
On 9 February 2024, I began writing a post every day. Nine hundred and nineteen writing days later, the habit has reshaped my author site. New articles joined carefully refreshed older work, while irrelevant pieces disappeared. This is what daily blogging taught me about discipline, editing, purpose and connected writing.
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SEETHINGS is available far beyond Smashwords and Draft2Digital. Readers can find the trilogy through familiar retailers around the world, including Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Waterstones and many more. I’ve created a country-by-country guide with direct retailer links, making it easier to buy eBooks and paperbacks locally without creating another account.
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Should independent authors load the car with books and sell them face to face, or build an audience online? Drawing on two very different author events, my own publishing choices, and years of digital promotion, I examine the costs, rewards, missed sales and long-term reach of both marketing paths today.
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Visit Michael Forman’s Latest page for writing news, book updates, podcast notes, travel stories and the occasional distraction from Mandurah. It is the informal corner of the website, where works in progress, refreshed posts, personal observations and minor disasters appear before the darkness returns in his fiction and novels again.
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Our DIY bathroom renovation moves from concrete and framing to plumbing, windows and interior work. While the new space slowly takes shape, we keep an ageing shower alive, test the bath’s extra-wide sill with a wine glass, and discover that home improvements rarely follow the neat sequence shown online.
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Why choose an adult cat over a kitten? For me, personality matters more than cuteness. Sharkey and Levi arrived as shelter cats, became family, and quietly accompanied the writing of SEETHINGS—sleeping on my desk, squeezing behind me on my chair, and softening the darker places explored in my fiction.
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Stephen King’s Fairy Tale delivers familiar darkness, hidden worlds and ordinary people confronting extraordinary evil. But is it King at his best? This review explores the novel’s strongest elements, what major critics said, and why readers drawn to monsters hiding inside human beings may also enjoy SEETHINGS.
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I’m afraid of heights, so when my yacht’s masthead light failed, I sent my boastful mate Graham up instead—at least in fiction. Climbing a mast takes skill, nerve and trust, especially when every movement below becomes a sweeping arc above. That’s why yachties should never underestimate the risk involved.
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Back to the renovation dust, tools, timber and half-finished kitchen plans. After a brief break, the house project resumes with wiring, wall removal, ceiling work, sink hunting and a visit from Alex, whose wooden sword briefly steals attention from the chaos of rebuilding a home one messy stage at a time.
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RSS can hide more readers than a website owner realises. This piece looks at anonymous subscribers, unseen downloads, stripped-back feeds, and the strange discovery that people may be reading your work regularly without appearing in your usual stats, comments, emails, or subscriber lists.
How Many Anonymous Fans Are Taking In Your Content Via RSS? Read More »