Richard is an international mythical fiction author. He is also a marketing guru, martial arts enthusiast and yogi. His first love is his wife Adele and two sons Adam and Jason. He is deeply spiritual and enjoys the outdoors in his home town, Cape Town, South Africa. Why not Subscribe to his posts?
When I first started writing my novel in September last year, I registered www.thelemurianprophecy.com. It was only several months later that I decided to change the title of my novel to The Lemurian. Tonight, I thought I’d register thelemurian.com but found that it had been registered already by another author who had published a novel […]
OK. I’ve officially finished writing and editing THE LEMURIAN. Next steps are to research a whole lotta options: professional editing, self-publishing vs traditional agent route, legal issues such as copywriting etc. Meeting a self-published author tomorrow so that’s gonna be interesting… Busy arranging a merchant account so I can sell via my website. Checking out […]
So when I first decided to write my novel (in September of last year), I researched the numbers. An average novel is between 80 and 120,000 words. So right then and there, I set myself a goal of 100,000 words. In the early hours of this morning, I reached and surpassed that number. 11 months […]
Settling into Jozi nicely by ending my busy day with a 90min Forrest yoga class. Forrest Yoga is so named after Ana Forrest, an advanced (almost 40 years experience) yoga instructor from the U.S. I trained with Mel at Yoga Warrior. Mel is one of my favourite instructors. She takes the class on a beautiful […]
I’m in Jozi town for a couple of days where I hope to finally finish my novel. I’m now at 97,000 words which is roughly 280 pages of a standard book. My target has always been 100,000 words and it’s uncanny how I have managed to come so close to this number (my guess is […]
I went to The Book Lounge yesterday, a quaint little independent bookstore in Roeland Street, Cape Town (cnr Buitenkant) for Lauren Beukes’ launch of her latest novel Broken Monsters. Here is a synopsis from her website: Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. She’s seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But […]
Just added a comments section. please feel free to add your comments about the site, the story etc
Spent most of last night working on refining my hook and pitch. The hook is a short sentence of no more than 25 to 30 words that entices the reader into the story. The pitch is a longer piece that summarises the story from the main character’s point of view, revealing his challenges and objectives… […]
Be sure to visit Pinterest where you will find the first few characters and places in The Lemurian Prophecy
I have just uploaded the first 20 chapters to a site called Authonomy. It is a site for new (mostly unpublished) authors to test their manuscripts, get feedback, comments, tips, meet fellow authors etc. Take a look if you wish…