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On the Cusp of an USP? Niches and Me.

Find your niche, they say, then make it yours! (They often say this with an exclamation point!)!! (Deliberate over-punctuation there, sorry.) What’s your Unique Selling Point (USP)? (And, yes, I did put ‘an’ before USP in the title — I…

Social Media Note 1

I will expand on this note in the future, but for now this should suffice. Some years ago I made a decision to step back from social media. The reasons behind this will be one of the things I’ll talk…

Dual Purpose

This post is designed to serve a dual purpose. Firstly, it is a test post for me — I’ve been messing around with widgets and sidebars after a couple of issues developed.  I am hopeful these are now solved and, in…

Operation Rising Cream

So, don’t you just hate how many people these days seem to start sentences with “so”?  I mean, it’s everywhere — Radio 4 is a big culprit, but then so are real flesh and blood people on the streets.  Or anywhere…

Days Off

Today I am having a “day off”.  This is not the same as a day off, which is an entirely different kettle of fish. A “day off” involves little work on my fiction.  Instead I channel my creative energy (and…

Selfies

Today’s website task was to choose photos of myself to upload to the frontpage here.  This was not fun. Having my eyes stare back at me for a couple of hours as I selected, cropped, collaged and scaled, was not…

Gimping

I love GIMP, it does everything I need it to.  Plus, it has a much more amusing name than Photoshop. Today I have had my day off writing (I try and have one off out of seven, and vary which…