Lexi Revellian

LATEST ARTICLES ( 130 )

• Why Authors and Trad Pub Don't Reveal Authors' Earnings

  

  Three days ago, a traditionally-published author blogged under the title: HONE$TY PO$T: An Average Traditionally Published Author's Pay. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Why Isn't an Older Mitten a Mat?

  

  From Donna WilsonI came across this charming rhyme posted as a comment on a Facebook thread, and can't resist copying it to my blog. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woohoo! A New Year!

  

  My new year got off to a pleasant start with Wolf by the Ears finishing the month at #4 on the YouWriteOn charts, entitling it to a professional critique from... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  

  City Traffic in the Rain from The Pipe Dream DailyWishing aMERRY CHRISTMAS to you all, and may your dreams come true in 2014!(I've chosen a rainy picture this... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Messing with Amazon's Head, Or Jeff Bezos Thinks I Own a Dog

  

  The dog I don't have - image from K9 Protection DogsAmazon has the most sophisticated algorithms in the world for knowing what its customers want in order to... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Novel out ~ Wolf by the Ears

  

  Today I hit Amazon's Publish button on Wolf by the Ears, my latest novel - an exciting and anxious moment. I do hope readers will like it. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Chasing the Last Typo, Considering Commas, Committing to the Move

  

  The paperback cover, still a work in progressMy latest novel is nearly good to go. A couple of beta readers told me it was comma-light, and they were right, so... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beta Readers and Winnie the Pooh

  

  Pooh murmured to himself: "But whatever his weight in pounds, shillings, and ounces, He always seems bigger because of his bounces.""And that's the whole... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Do Not Trifle with Readers' Expectations

  

  A couple of weeks ago Harper Collins published the third and final book, Allegiant, in Veronica Roth's popular trilogy. I'd actually bought a copy of the first... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, Farewell and Good Riddance

  

  I last thought it essential to possess a copy of Writers' Artists' Yearbook in 2008. I was no doubt happy to hand over my £14.99 for their 101st edition,... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The WIP's Progress: 60,000 Words

  

  Those of you who hang on my every word (and I don't want to sound ungrateful, but shouldn't you get out more?) will have noticed my blog posts have been a tad... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• One Word After Another

  

  For me these days the most difficult part of writing a novel is getting going on the first page. I don't recall having this problem with my first two novels,... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Smells in Novels ~ but Not Much in Jane Austen

  

  Smell is one of the senses we are told to use when writing a novel, and I totally agree; what can be more evocative than the smell of the sea, or honeysuckle, o... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Writing Middles, Clippit, and Increasing Eccentricity

  

  I use Word 2000. It's what I'm used to; I've written five novels on it. I actually uninstalled Word 2007 from my laptop to stick with what I know.... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Writing - Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

  

  Lucie Rie conical bowl, 1978I want to start with a quote from Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. In this bit Paul Pennyfeather is having problems with discipline... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How to Get a Publishing Contract

  What are the publishable classes? It's an expression coined by my virtual friend, Iain Manson, and means the sort of people who find it relatively easy to get a... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My 3rd Self-publishing Anniversary

  

  This day three years ago I self-published Remix on Amazon.Self-publishing wasn't what I really wanted. I believe I still hankered after the dream - an agent, a... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Chris Blake is a Fake - Lying Author Biographies

  We all know that JK Rowling made up an elaborate identity for her alter ego, Robert Galbraith, including claims that he was married with two sons, and had worke... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• JK Rowling Publishes (briefly) Under Another Name

  

  I don't expect I'm breaking this news to anyone. But it does strike me as raising a number of interesting questions.Kate Mills, fiction editor at Orion Books,... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fame, Lasting and Fleeting

  

  Which would you rather: to be a rich and famous novelist during your lifetime, then sink into obscurity for ever, or struggle while alive and then have... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE