Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "banshee"
31st July 2009
I was looking at Createspace this week as a way to publish Bublos. After checking it out though I realized that it doesn’t offer much in the way for distribution. At first I thought that their Pro Plan would offer at least distribution through all of its parent company’s many sub domains but unfortunately no. This is sad because if it had then it would have given me a way for my books to be on all of Amazons’ sites world wide, as they are the ones that own Createspace. Ah well, it doesn’t and they don’t.
I will keep looking though the cost of other publishers seem very high, from $399 up till you reach the silly money. I’ll need to save a lot before I can afford to publish again by the looks of things. Saying that, if Lulu were to get around to sorting things out, then I might be able to get on with setting up Bublos for the market. I don’t think that is going to happen though, it’s been to long and they don’t seem to really wish to answer my calls for them to come clean.
Whilst I save I can start writing my next story, Banshee 2. There’s a sub title that I won’t reveal at the moment. Mandy will be back for the funeral of one of the two men that died in the first book. I’m still working out their relationship, as there is a gap in the years separating them. Aunt, Great Aunt? As I said something to figure out this weekend, maybe.
I will keep looking though the cost of other publishers seem very high, from $399 up till you reach the silly money. I’ll need to save a lot before I can afford to publish again by the looks of things. Saying that, if Lulu were to get around to sorting things out, then I might be able to get on with setting up Bublos for the market. I don’t think that is going to happen though, it’s been to long and they don’t seem to really wish to answer my calls for them to come clean.
Whilst I save I can start writing my next story, Banshee 2. There’s a sub title that I won’t reveal at the moment. Mandy will be back for the funeral of one of the two men that died in the first book. I’m still working out their relationship, as there is a gap in the years separating them. Aunt, Great Aunt? As I said something to figure out this weekend, maybe.
10th December 2010
I’ve finished editing Banshee 2 but found that my printer needs ink. So I need to wait till I can afford more before my son can read it through again. It could be after Christmas before I can get the ink though. In the meantime I’ll continue with the poems that I’ve started, which I have written more of. I will post some of them on GoodReads, though not all of them. The ones I like best will find there way onto my profile under my writing that I have posted there. I’m calling the collection Nowhere as they could be set anywhere really. I hope that they will all have that same child like voice so as to really test me. At the moment I have about six or so complete or near complete in the collection. I’m not sure how many I will in the end create but it will be something fun to do over the next couple of months by which time I should have ink for the printer.
There was a leak at work last night. As we were leaving we could hear what sounded like a river running through the main cooking hall. It turned out that one of the main water pipes had sprung a leak because of all the freezing weather. Anyways they had it fixed by the time I got to work today. One of the supervisors seems to be a dab hand at sorting things around the work. Lucky as they would have had a hard time finding a plumber at this time of year.
There was a leak at work last night. As we were leaving we could hear what sounded like a river running through the main cooking hall. It turned out that one of the main water pipes had sprung a leak because of all the freezing weather. Anyways they had it fixed by the time I got to work today. One of the supervisors seems to be a dab hand at sorting things around the work. Lucky as they would have had a hard time finding a plumber at this time of year.
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 kept on but at the same time they haven’t given me a letter saying their letting me go, which is good. So I’ll be off to work come Monday anyways. It may not be my dream job it is a job though. It is great not having to be grill every two weeks like you were a criminal. That is how it feels sometimes when you sign on. And the government is continually making it harder for people yet seem to let the ones that have never worked off easy. Mind it is always greener in the other pasture isn’t it.
Well I’m going to relax this Saturday and Sunday. I’ll read my computer magazine and nag my son, hehehe. Other than that I haven’t really got much planned though I should start getting the plot to the next tale sorted. I just can’t seem to get the drive for it while I still have Banshee Fires of Revenge out there. I will just have to be patient.
I am still working though this is four weeks. They haven’t said that I’m getting kept on but at the same time they haven’t given me a letter saying their letting me go, which is good. So I’ll be off to work come Monday anyways. It may not be my dream job it is a job though. It is great not having to be grill every two weeks like you were a criminal. That is how it feels sometimes when you sign on. And the government is continually making it harder for people yet seem to let the ones that have never worked off easy. Mind it is always greener in the other pasture isn’t it.
Well I’m going to relax this Saturday and Sunday. I’ll read my computer magazine and nag my son, hehehe. Other than that I haven’t really got much planned though I should start getting the plot to the next tale sorted. I just can’t seem to get the drive for it while I still have Banshee Fires of Revenge out there. I will just have to be patient.
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 is of greater concern to the main character than his family or workmates. I’m not sure how it will turn out this time. So often I know the end to my stories but this time I still haven’t seen where this tale will take me. Maybe after I sit down and work out the plot, we’ll see. I can see where the tale starts, I can even see the family watching the news and the main character realising that things aren’t right. I best not say any more on it.
I’ll be doing more DIY this weekend scraping and steaming artex from my kitchen walls. Of course I will also be heading for town with Magz so she can choose her birthday gift. I think she is secretly looking forwards to it though she has done her usual, which is saying I shouldn’t bother but how could I do that when I have some pennies that I can use to show what she means to me?
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 is of greater concern to the main character than his family or workmates. I’m not sure how it will turn out this time. So often I know the end to my stories but this time I still haven’t seen where this tale will take me. Maybe after I sit down and work out the plot, we’ll see. I can see where the tale starts, I can even see the family watching the news and the main character realising that things aren’t right. I best not say any more on it.
I’ll be doing more DIY this weekend scraping and steaming artex from my kitchen walls. Of course I will also be heading for town with Magz so she can choose her birthday gift. I think she is secretly looking forwards to it though she has done her usual, which is saying I shouldn’t bother but how could I do that when I have some pennies that I can use to show what she means to me?
