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1st April 2011

Finished working out the plot for my next story. I also got word back from LLBookreview.com requesting a hard copy of my latest book Banshee Fires of Revenge. I still have to send a email so I can get the address to send it to. I’m always nervous about reviews, which I suppose isn’t surprising. You just never really know if what you’ve written is as good as you think until strangers give you good feedback. You just might find you get the kind of review I got for my first book Teddy the Bea [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 18:46:00 01.04.2011; Comments: 557 Add Comment

25th March 2011

Approved my new book for distribution through Lulu.com this week. Now the wait for it to appear on Amazon, B&N and other retailers. My sister claimed my proof-copy to read and others want to read it after her which is encouraging though I don’t get any sales out of it. I need to thing of promoting the book now. I have made a start by applying to LLBookreview.com and is now under consideration so fingers crossed. They have reviewed some of my previous books including Banshee Angel of Judgem [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 19:21:21 25.03.2011; Comments: 535 Add Comment

18th March 2011

I’ve started working on the plot for my next story. It’s only four chapter’s worth so far but it is a start. I also wrote down some notes for my next Banshee tale at work. They aren’t a lot just a few lines about the concept behind it and the way in which the banshee rises again. I was quite excited with the idea at the time so had to make a note in case I lost it. That happens very easily when you don’t have access to writing material. Even when you do there is always the risk that th [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 19:47:21 18.03.2011; Comments: 1259 Add Comment

11th March 2011

More steaming off artex this weekend to look forwards to, though there isn’t much left to do luckily. Hopefully I’ll get it finished tomorrow so I can watch the rugby, Scotland v England, on Sunday. I’ll listen to the TV as I work tomorrow to the other games but I need to get the job finished so I can’t take the time to watch them. I might, if I’m lucky, get to see some of the second game Wales v Ireland. That should be a good game. Not had as much time to write down my ideas or a [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 19:18:56 11.03.2011; Comments: 5 Add Comment

4th March 2011

I’ll wrote a poem in Scots today will at work. It was one of those flashes of inspiration brought on by a work colleague. It’s quite fun when that happens. It is something I used do when I was younger, writing in Scots my first tongue as they say here. Though many see as no more than a regional accent these days. I find that sad as it is a language, the spoken word of the Lowlands of Scotland, used by my nation’s greatest poet, Robert Burns. Part of the problem lays in the past when it was [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 19:15:36 04.03.2011; Comments: 9 Add Comment

25th February 2011

I finished Banshee Fires of Revenge and it is now available from Smashwords.com. I uploaded it midweek after I sorted the errors as well as formatting it. Now it is also ready to be uploaded to Lulu.com which I will be doing in the March, probably late in the month. Already I’m beginning to get a fuller picture of the next book in my head. Characters are taking shape along with the world they inhabit or more correctly the social situation they are faced with. It is quite a dark world that [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 19:01:12 25.02.2011; Comments: 1088 Add Comment

18th February 2011

Magz wasn’t too happy last Saturday. She gave me a Valentine’s card late Friday night and I told I hadn’t gotten her anything. So come Saturday she wanted to go down town; of course I didn’t want to. Of course come Monday by the time I got home she was in a lot better mood. I’m cruel aren’t I, hehehe but she did like it and hasn’t stopped showing it off to everyone. Calum has finally finished reading through my next book. He’s marked all the mistakes so I can sort the errors [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 18:54:19 18.02.2011; Comments: 95 Add Comment

11th February 2011

On the way home today I dropped into to town to get Magz a gift for Valentine’s. I didn’t spend a lot but did get her a small gold pendant in the shape of a heart as well as a card, all for under twenty five pounds. She hasn’t a clue as I told her that I was home late because we had to drop off a workmate somewhere. I left the excuse vague as I hadn’t really thought it out much. I know I should have had a better reason for getting home late but hopefully she doesn’t suspect anything, s [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 19:02:56 11.02.2011; Comments: 6 Add Comment

4th February 2011

Another week gone and it’s time for the weekend. It feels good. Still waiting for Calum to finish reading the new book, though I haven’t been nagging him this week. I can’t promise that I won’t this weekend so I can finally get it finished. Mind that is nothing to what is happening around the world when you think of it. Of course he’ll still treat it as if it was, after all he is only sixteen. I am still working though this is four weeks. They haven’t said that I’m getting kep [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 18:56:41 04.02.2011; Comments: 9 Add Comment

21st January 2011

Great news this week at work, I might be getting kept on. One of my fellow workers got a new job so today was his last day. That means there is now an opening, which is good for me. When I asked my line supervisor today what the chances of me being kept on he said that it was “very good.” You can’t get much better than that. It may be minimum wage but a job in this day and age is still better than the brew (unemployment). Woking does mean that there is less time for writing but I do g [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 18:59:08 21.01.2011; Comments: 15 Add Comment

14th January 2011

My financial worries continue as both the jobcentre and the tax credit office seem to have messed up my claims. Well Magz phoned them on Wednesday to see how things were progressing. Unfortunately they weren’t with the people on the phone a little lost to what was happening. In the end they told Magz to phone back today, which she did to be given more of a run-around before being told things would be sorted for next week. So now I have to find my bus fair for next week and I haven’t had any [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 18:46:33 14.01.2011; Comments: 11 Add Comment

7th January 2011

Just got off the phone with my previous employer, they rang to ask me back for three to four weeks work at full time hours. Though I am pleased to go back to work I have still not gotten any money from the jobcentre so have very little for bus fares for the next two weeks as I will have to work a weeks lying time. I know that in the end it will work out and my family will benefit from it but in the short term things are going to be very difficult. Not the easiest start to the New Year. On a [>>>]

Posted by BillyYoung 16:27:12 07.01.2011; Comments: 17 Add Comment