2013-12-31 17:01
Cross-posting from over at jamesoswald.co.uk because I'm lazy... I don't think I've ever done a review of the year before. Mostly it's been about tying up loose ends before saying goodbye to… Read More
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A place for the musings, observations, rants and other moans of James Oswald, self-published author and owner of too few cats and dogs.
2013-10-29 00:00
I blame Andrew Reid. He's the one who came up with the idea.Later on this week it's World Fantasy Con in Brighton, and eleven (say it like Burnistoun - Eleven) of Literary Agent Extraordinai… Read More
2013-10-03 11:27
It's been far too long since I've posted anything here. I expect no one looks any more, and the RSS Readers will probably have given up too. The problem is, life got just too busy to blog.I'… Read More
2013-03-16 12:28
I'm all too aware that I've been neglecting this place of late. It happens, sadly. Especially when I've got a novel on the boil. The Hangman's Song, number three in the DI McLean series, is… Read More
2013-02-12 14:03
16-04-1998 to 12-02-2013Yesterday evening, around about feeding time, I noticed that Machrihanish, the SausageDog was in some distress. He was having a lot of difficulty standing, his back l… Read More
2012-11-29 22:43
I realised today that it's almost the end of November and I've not posted anything all month. OK, so I didn't post much last month either, but at least I posted something.The reason for my l… Read More
2012-10-20 10:10
Two and a half years ago, I posted this little piece on the oddness of life. That was the first time I met Juliet Mushens, agent extraordinaire at PFD. Despite what I wrote in that post, she… Read More
2012-10-06 20:08
It's been a busy few weeks for me in the media recently. Things kicked off with an article in The Scottish Farmer.This was quickly followed up by a piece in the Farmer's Weekly.Last week the… Read More
2012-09-26 20:21
Two loosely connected thoughts in one today. Aren't you a lucky bunch...It's been three months now since I published The Book of Souls, and to say that I'm pleased with the results would be… Read More
2012-08-30 11:32
I posted this over at jamesoswald.co.uk and then realised not everyone knows about that place. Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed a certain baby-faced Detective Constable Stuart MacBride po… Read More
2012-08-25 19:02
I got up early this morning, fully expecting to find a dead calf in the shed; my record with intervention is not good. As it happened, Siobhan Ruadh was fine, nestled down in the straw and a… Read More
2012-08-24 21:29
Because they'd be just too upsetting. The life of a farmer isn't always an easy one, and today has been one of those days. To start with I needed to fix the Quad Bike, which refused to start… Read More
2012-08-03 22:27
There's a whole bunch of stuff needing to be done on the farm right now. The last of the cows looks like she's about to drop her calf any minute, I've got to clear another four acres of gors… Read More
2012-07-27 23:36
Well, sooner or later I was going to have to cave in and write something.As one or two of you might know, there was a panel at last weekend's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival i… Read More
2012-07-13 22:53
I would consider myself to be of above average literacy, despite what many would consider a poor start. From the beginning, my technical skill at writing was overshadowed by my eagerness to… Read More
2012-06-23 10:22
It's here at last. The second book in the soon-to-be-famous DI McLean series. Available exclusively on Amazon, at least for the time-being. Go get it now:The Book of Souls by James Oswald (U… Read More
2012-06-20 18:34
One of the biggest problems facing a self-publishing author is that of editing. It's possible to edit your own work up to a point, and with training and experience that point gets closer and… Read More
2012-06-14 15:34
Contrary to popular belief, it would appear that you can, in fact, give this shit away.Since being dropped to free on Amazon, Natural Causes has shifted over 72,000 copies in the UK and over… Read More
2012-05-28 21:51
About time too. I've finally had a one star review on Amazon for Natural Causes. It's short, and to the point, so I'll copy it here:Couldn't get past the violent rape at the beginningThe boo… Read More
2012-05-25 19:03
Which is pretty much all the Latin I can remember from school. Except for Caesar adsum iam forte, Pompey aderat and all that lovey-dovey nonsense with amo amas amat amamus amatis a… Read More
2012-05-14 21:02
A funny thing happened in the middle of last week. My novel, Natural Causes, which was doing slow business at $2.99 on Amazon.com dropped in price to free. This in itself wasn't su… Read More
2012-04-29 16:20
Number six, or Topsie as she's being called at the moment, is proving to be a bit of a handful. With any other mum, she would probably have been easy to sort out, but because Mairi Clare is… Read More
2012-04-26 12:59
Calving began here at Fliskmillan at the end of last month. Since Mr Plums ran with his girls from mid June right through to March this year, and circumstances dictated that I couldn't get t… Read More
2012-04-08 15:14
Working my way through the final edits of The Rose Cord, book two of the Ballad of Sir Benfro series, I have come to a rather disturbing conclusion: it's not quite as good as the first book… Read More
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