Christopher Hoare's Blog (7)

Offering an invitation to see a blog tour in action. My March Virtual Book Tour starts soon and anyone interested in learning how this form of promotion works can follow along by visiting the participating sites. Promotion is the next thing a writer has to learn after growing some competence in the writing craft. Perhaps following my tour will enable you to learn if this method is for you. The first venue is a blog interview on March 3rd . I will post each week’s venues and links ahead of time… Continue

Deadly Enterprise hasn’t had much promotion this week, until yesterday when I started another blitz of review sites to get more takers. The early part of the week I was busy finishing up the last of the last novel clinic, and then went out to begin the annual firewood collection. The forestry has been closed because of the drought and extreme fire hazard, so I collected a load from along the CPR track. It was harder work that usual because I couldn’t drive to the wood and had to drag it out by h… Continue

I have to confess I’ve been very busy – too busy to write blog entries for all my sites – but you can read my latest posted tale from Oil Gypsy and my recent promotion activities on my primary blog site – http://www.serial-adventure-fiction.blogspot.com

See you there. Continue

My Oil Gypsy excerpt this time is about conditions in the Arctic and what it feels like when the weather closes in to prevent you from telling ground from sky.

But first: the commercial <g>.

I’ve ordered a few POD copies of Deadly Enterprise, but they’ve not arrived yet. To order the large print paperback off the Double Dragon website (at http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-55404-466-9 ) you need to click on the link at the top right hand corner of the… Continue

Before I get to my latest Oil Gypsy post I must tell you about all my promotions for my novel Deadly Enterprise.

I have blog interviews up at Rachael Byrd’s site www.xanga.com/rachaelbyrd as well as on Novelspot at http://novelspot.net/node/1733 .
Actually my Novelspot interview is on the front page right now. I did have another but I’m going to have to send a note to the blog owner to find out the link to it.

I am on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=668… Continue

Hi All:

Our latest anthology from Double Dragon, Twisted Tales II, Volumes 1 & 2 have been released. The stories all hinge upon twists in time – time travel, time paradox, or alternate timelines. I'd really like you to check it out – I have a story in volume 2. You can find it at --

http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-55404-450-2

Volume one has been out for over a month and now volume two has followed it. I was pleased to be invited to contribute… Continue

Doing some plotting in my head for a background scene in one of my alternate world novels ( yes I do that a lot, with the intention of reaching deeper into my scenario rather than using the scene in a novel ) I came across a huge reality gap in most science fiction scenes of planetary arrival.

My scenes first. My modern people have been stranded on an alternate earth, with a culture very like our timeline in the early 1700s. On the first ocean voyage in a sailing ship that has been… Continue