The Life of A Trans Sci-Fi Writer

Like for a lot of new indie authors, the most difficult part of the self-publishing experience has been promoting my book (It's called Talking to Lobsters and you can get it here!  https://tinyurl.com/talkingtolobsterscollection ). Hence, therefore, and in accordance with the prophecy, you're now reading my shiny new blog, which is a cynical attempt to "build a profile" (gagging sound) and then hopefully sell some books. Except really, I've loved writing this blog so far, and I think I'll keep doing it even if no one reads it, because it's really cathartic for getting stuff off my chest!  So, anyway, book promotion... Like a lot of new indie authors, I started by offering my ebook for free for the duration that Amazon allows. That, combined with the constant spamming of all my friends and family on Facebook, got me a good few downloads in the first couple of weeks. This led to a much smaller number of sales of the paperback version from close family who wa

Hi Readers! So, I’ve got a confession to make; for a sci-fi nerd, time travel stories really irritate me. Now don’t get me wrong, I love watching Back to The Future as much as the next person, and The Voyage Home (the one with the whales) and First Contact (the one with the Borg) are my favourite Star Trek films, i.e. THE TIME TRAVEL ONES! But my problem is that whenever you start to analyse ANY time travel story, it starts to unravel. I mean, if Marty had failed to get his parents together, then he would have never been born, which means he never would have gone back in time to ruin his parents’ relationship in the first place, which means he would have been born and then gone back in time to ruin his parents’ relationship… It makes my head hurt... Which is why, when I started writing sci-fi stories, I vowed to never write a time travel story. So, of course, my book contains two time travel stories. ( Talking to Lobsters, available at Amazon here) So, if time travel stories offend me