Category Archives: writing

The somewhat belated cover reveal…

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Mark Hayes

Okay this is not as such a cover reveal, because that something you do when you have a new book in the offing. This isn’t a new book, indeed it was the fist full novel I wrote way back in … Continue reading →

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Occasional self promotion… Maybe…

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Mark Hayes

2020 is hopefully going to be a big year for me, I say more in hope than expectation but if you can’t back yourself who will? Among other things I turn fifty on the ides of march. So I will … Continue reading →

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A Merry Harvey Christmas To all…

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Mark Hayes

Its never too late to release another book (been a busy year for me , Two novels  and stories in five anthologies) In all likelihood the final book release of the year… The ever indubitable Harvey ‘tinsel and reindeer candy’ … Continue reading →

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The Indie Christmas List…

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Mark Hayes

Christmas is coming, the annual festival of shiny barbarism and excess, and in theory at least good will and giving. Surprising as I doubt you find it, one of my favourite gifts to give or receive at Christmas are books. … Continue reading →

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The economics of self-publishing

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Mark Hayes

As a subject, I hate economics. Now, to be clear, the reason I hate economics is because I have studied it. A little under ten years ago, at the age of forty, I made the decision to do a degree … Continue reading →

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From whence I write…

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Mark Hayes

The place I write from is not a happy place. This was a lesson learn the hard way, but a lesson learned hard, is a lesson learned well. But all the same it is a bitter kind of lesson. Writing … Continue reading →

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Nanowrimo and stuff update…

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Mark Hayes

November had been a busy month of writer stuff so far. Not least because its NaNoWriMo and I have been determined form the start to make a fist of it this year. Hence I have been too busy writing to … Continue reading →

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Free Harvey Duckman

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Mark Hayes

To celebrate the release of Harvey Duckman Presents Book 3 on Halloween. The Kindle edition of the first book in this wonderful series is available free on Kindle on the 30th and 31st. If you have not yet got a … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo: planning for the writing fest

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Mark Hayes

‘Its the most wonderful time of the year…’ No not the one in December… NaNoWriMo is almost upon us, and if you are planning to participate this year, you may be plotting already, even if your plotting to take the … Continue reading →

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Harvey The Third…

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Mark Hayes

One of the most exciting things I have been involved in over the last year and a bit has been Sixth Element Publishing the Harvey Duckman Presents anthology’s. From it’s inception (reputably over a few beers in a pub one … Continue reading →

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