Hi all,
I am back from my hols (Nerja, Spain...warm sun, cold sea) with what (for me) passes for a tan. I am straight back into the whole book-marketing thing, and I am seeking local knowledge from anyone who lives in Oxfordshire or surrounding counties...
I am starting the process of creating a short film, maybe 15-45 seconds long, as a trailer for "Spiral; The Finding." I am looking for two particular locations, and wonder if anyone knows any places that are like this?
Location 1: a bleak, windswept, hilly landscape with a body of water in or near it.
Location: 2 an underground corridor/tunnel with stone walls...the older the better.
Obviously these would need to be places where they are happy to have people film royalty-free.
If anyone knows, do drop me a line, I really appreciate it :)
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Hello again peeps,
Another day, another dollar...pound, that is, on this side of the Atlantic. My debut novel Spiral;The Finding is selling on Amazon Kindle !!!! Ok, I'm not a millionaire yet, but the fact remains that I put three years of my (and my son's) life into this book, and to see it actually being purchased, something I never thought would happen, is a real boost. Thanks to Ankit Parekh for another five star review.
I'm starting to get my game head on with the sequel to Spiral now. I started it a while back, and then just left it, in the face of everything else going on (another novel, various poetry, plays and other joys). Now, I'm picking it up again, with the MacBain sisters, getting back inside their skins again the way I had to do for the first time back in 2011. It's easier this time; I feel I know the characters so well. But it's also more difficult in the sense that I'm having to revisit characters who have grown and changed, not just in my own mind with the passage of time, but with the events that befell them in the first book; anyone who has read it will know you cannot witness what these girls have and come out the other side of it unscathed. The cracks in their relationship that started to appear in the first book are widening in the second, as survival becomes even harder for them, and life even more fraught with difficulty. But they still manage to pull together; even while pulling apart; as they leave the island of their childhood and forge their way forward into a strange world they have never seen, in search of a new life....haunted by old foes.
I'm pretty passionate about this, as you can tell, so I'm hoping this next book will all fall out of my head in the space of a few months like the first one did...and not take two years, like my unaffiliated novel, ahem....
Watch this space for regular update, not to mention rants ! Cheers for reading :)
Another day, another dollar...pound, that is, on this side of the Atlantic. My debut novel Spiral;The Finding is selling on Amazon Kindle !!!! Ok, I'm not a millionaire yet, but the fact remains that I put three years of my (and my son's) life into this book, and to see it actually being purchased, something I never thought would happen, is a real boost. Thanks to Ankit Parekh for another five star review.
I'm starting to get my game head on with the sequel to Spiral now. I started it a while back, and then just left it, in the face of everything else going on (another novel, various poetry, plays and other joys). Now, I'm picking it up again, with the MacBain sisters, getting back inside their skins again the way I had to do for the first time back in 2011. It's easier this time; I feel I know the characters so well. But it's also more difficult in the sense that I'm having to revisit characters who have grown and changed, not just in my own mind with the passage of time, but with the events that befell them in the first book; anyone who has read it will know you cannot witness what these girls have and come out the other side of it unscathed. The cracks in their relationship that started to appear in the first book are widening in the second, as survival becomes even harder for them, and life even more fraught with difficulty. But they still manage to pull together; even while pulling apart; as they leave the island of their childhood and forge their way forward into a strange world they have never seen, in search of a new life....haunted by old foes.
I'm pretty passionate about this, as you can tell, so I'm hoping this next book will all fall out of my head in the space of a few months like the first one did...and not take two years, like my unaffiliated novel, ahem....
Watch this space for regular update, not to mention rants ! Cheers for reading :)
Monday, 14 April 2014
I'd like to open today's entry by saying a huge thank you to Brittany Campbell for giving Spiral; The Finding such a rave review on Amazon.com. My first review ! I think I might cry a little...(sniff)...but seriously, it's stuff like that that keeps us writers going, knowing we haven't put our blood and tears into something for no reason. So, thank you Brittany :)
Ok, dudes…today is Blog Tour day here at The Ink Splat! This is a little something that’s been passed on from writer to writer lately (kind of like a virus but significantly less gross) where every writer answers questions about their writing process. Last week was Liah Thorley’s turn. You can see her post here.
Ok, dudes…today is Blog Tour day here at The Ink Splat! This is a little something that’s been passed on from writer to writer lately (kind of like a virus but significantly less gross) where every writer answers questions about their writing process. Last week was Liah Thorley’s turn. You can see her post here.
So here we go…this is Audrina Paisley!
What am I working on?
At the moment? The sequel to Spiral; The Finding, and it’s been slow going, to be honest. I’m
doing so much for marketing with Finding that the (as yet un-named) sequel is
going at kind of a stop-start pace. I am also in “post-production”, as it were,
on another novel, The Buried and The Lost,
set in Victorian London during the early days of Scotland Yard. Watch this
space….
How does my work differ from others of its genre?
Multiple perspectives. They’re kind of like Marmite, you
either love them or hate them. I personally love them. A lot of my work has a
psychological thriller aspect to it, and I love getting under the skin of
different characters, exploring how they relate to each other, what drives them
through the external forces at work around them. I love looking at crossed
wires in relationships, and how characters can be driven to do things based on
what they THINK the other person is
thinking…or not, as the case may be. I’m also interested in gutsy female
characters and protagonists with a vulnerable streak. I love to turn traditional
gender roles on their head and have a woman who “saves” the man.
Why do I write what I do?
I write historical fiction because really I’m just a geek
for a bit of visual drama…really I should be making films, not writing. But
I love the challenge to create something that evokes the look, sound, smell of
a place and time in all its clear, crisp, golden glory. It’s all about sensual
transcendence for me.
How does your writing process work?
I’m infamous for not planning! At least not at first. I
get a character, image, feeling, event or something in my head (often from
dreams or stuff I’ve seen and heard around me) and then I just run with it and
see where it takes me. There always comes a point where I have to grind to a stop
and water (read; coffee) the lathered horses of my brain and do a bit of
planning to make the arc of the story work in a practical sense. But until I
get to that point, it’s rollercoaster all the way, baby!
Ok, so here’s the embarrassing bit….I’m supposed to
introduce the next person in the tour now, and give a bit of a bio about them
and a link to their website. However, because I am technologically backward
(and frankly a bit sad) I didn’t even have a blog until about two weeks ago,
and I missed out on the potential pool of candidates for my “next” out of all
my writer mates…so there isn’t a next one. Unless any up-and-coming writers
from the world at large would like to offer
yourselves up as my “next” and I can link to you in a new blog post?
(Shameless plug for contacts, obviously.)
Thanks all from me today. The sun is shining in old Blighty, so all who live here, keep on smiling :)
Thanks all from me today. The sun is shining in old Blighty, so all who live here, keep on smiling :)
Monday, 7 April 2014
Ok, so...it's the first day of the Easter holidays....
...it's positively wee-ing rain...
...I have an exuberant three-year-old to keep entertained...
...I am on a strict budget with which to do so...
...I still have book-launch stuff to get done...
...lines to learn for my next play...
...don't even get me STARTED on writing....
...and I haven't had any coffee yet this morning.
Oh, this is gonna be GOOD !
...it's positively wee-ing rain...
...I have an exuberant three-year-old to keep entertained...
...I am on a strict budget with which to do so...
...I still have book-launch stuff to get done...
...lines to learn for my next play...
...don't even get me STARTED on writing....
...and I haven't had any coffee yet this morning.
Oh, this is gonna be GOOD !
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Hi all :)
Hooray, my new blog is up and running at last ! A massive thanks goes out to fellow author Marissa de Luna for giving me loads of technical help and marketing pointers, particularly Twitter (me: "Marissa, what's Twitter? What does it do?")....because let's face it, I'm not the most technically minded of bods! Still, despite all her very kind help, I hit a few snags, which resulted in much frustrated clicking and cussing at 9:30 last night. Anyway, it's all up and running....for now!
I'm also REALLY excited because my debut novel, Spiral;The Finding, went live on Amazon Kindle on the 15th of March. Immediately following this I was felled with a chest infection, and haven't been able to do much marketing to date, but I'm getting back on the proverbial horse now and starting to build an internet presence for myself, bit by laborious bit.
The Finding is the first in a series of YA historical fiction novels, set on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides in 1446. Teenaged midwife Rosie MacBain is skilled at what she does; whether that be delivering a baby, setting a bone, or keeping her four orphaned sisters from the brink of destitution. But on the day her youngest sister discovers an ancient piece of silver buried on their land, an old face from Rosie’s childhood returns to the village. From that moment on, Rosie must decide which is more important to her; her craft, her sisters, her love...or her life.
You can order it here;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spiral-The-Finding-Audrina-Paisley-ebook/dp/B00IVMWXM2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396351946&sr=8-1&keywords=spiral+the+finding
The next installment in the Spiral series is is the works, and I'm also working on another, unaffiliated, historical fiction novel.
So give Spiral a read, and watch this space for all things book-related, and more besides.....
Hooray, my new blog is up and running at last ! A massive thanks goes out to fellow author Marissa de Luna for giving me loads of technical help and marketing pointers, particularly Twitter (me: "Marissa, what's Twitter? What does it do?")....because let's face it, I'm not the most technically minded of bods! Still, despite all her very kind help, I hit a few snags, which resulted in much frustrated clicking and cussing at 9:30 last night. Anyway, it's all up and running....for now!
I'm also REALLY excited because my debut novel, Spiral;The Finding, went live on Amazon Kindle on the 15th of March. Immediately following this I was felled with a chest infection, and haven't been able to do much marketing to date, but I'm getting back on the proverbial horse now and starting to build an internet presence for myself, bit by laborious bit.
The Finding is the first in a series of YA historical fiction novels, set on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides in 1446. Teenaged midwife Rosie MacBain is skilled at what she does; whether that be delivering a baby, setting a bone, or keeping her four orphaned sisters from the brink of destitution. But on the day her youngest sister discovers an ancient piece of silver buried on their land, an old face from Rosie’s childhood returns to the village. From that moment on, Rosie must decide which is more important to her; her craft, her sisters, her love...or her life.
You can order it here;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spiral-The-Finding-Audrina-Paisley-ebook/dp/B00IVMWXM2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396351946&sr=8-1&keywords=spiral+the+finding
The next installment in the Spiral series is is the works, and I'm also working on another, unaffiliated, historical fiction novel.
So give Spiral a read, and watch this space for all things book-related, and more besides.....
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