May Bermont's blog on being a would-be novelist, writing historical and literary fiction and self-publishing.
Thursday, 28 February 2019
"Editing the first draft..."
Some of you may remember this cartoon. It is the very first one I created, about a year ago.
Because of the book I am going to publish, I made several cartoons which I am not going to publish on this blog, so they can remain original. So I thought that, from time to time, I could repost old ones. I hope you don't mind!
Thursday, 21 February 2019
Sunday, 17 February 2019
Monday, 11 February 2019
Announcement
I have some exciting news! *drum-roll* I have finally decided that I would turn my cartoons into a book, or rather, into a series of small books, focussing on the different aspects of a (would-be) writer's life. I know that I've been hinting at this project for some time, but now it is official.
I do not have a release date yet, as I have to write/edit/proofread the text that will go with the images, make some new cartoons (that will only be published in the books, not on the blog), format the whole thing, make some nice covers... But I'll try to publish the first book before the end of the year! I'll make another announcement as soon as I've settled on a date.
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Monday, 4 February 2019
What's up?
What's up? A lot of things. Too many things. This is why I haven't been publishing articles on this blog for some time (though I hope you will admire my regularity in posting those weekly cartoons!).
As Winter Came and Went has been published. However, that doesn't mean that it can now just live it's own life: I have to work on the marketing side of the writing business and find a way of letting the wide world know that my novel is out there. And find a way of inciting the wide world to actually buy this novel (more subtly than posting BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! on every social media I can think of).
I've reached (and hope to finish this month) chapter 9/13 of the sequel of As Winter Came and Went. I know that I'm making slow progress, compared to people who managed to churn out a book a year, if not most (how do they do it? If someone knows, pleeeaaase tell me!). But it's progress nonetheless. I'm eager to finish the first draft, because then I'll have something to work upon, to refine, to shape. To turn into something which I hope will be beautiful.
You might remember the other work in progress I already mentionned on this blog, Cinnamon (working title). I do not want this project, novel or novella, we'll see, to join the ranks of the unfinished stories that lurk in the depths of my computer or under piles and piles of paper. So maybe, once I've finished chap. 9 of the sequel, I'll work on Cinnamon, just Cinnamon, for a whole month.
I've also got an exciting project regarding my little cartoons. There are almost 50 of them now. 50! And it will be almost a year since I first started drawing them. So maybe, quite soon, they could be making their way into a little book... More on this in another post!
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