If you want to check that Dom is alive, well, and (most importantly) still writing, then this is the place to do it…
Here is where Dom provides updates on all his projects be it short stories, competitions or his debut novel A Better Crown, plus any other strange ideas he may come up with.
It may include some columns and opinion pieces from his journalistic work.
Dom will try to update you as much as possible but if you’re looking for something to transport you away for a while, his short stories and excerpts from A Better Crown can be found in the menu above.
Enjoy.
A Better Crown now has several very diligent and very enthusiastic beta readers rifling through it. With their feedback, and another round of editing on my part; the third, and hopefully, final draft is well underway. Earthguard is in place, the plotline is rigid, the characters are set. A few edges need to be softened and a few corners rounded, but then it should all be done.
Read MoreThe first book I ever read, cover to cover, entirely on my own, was Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox. I was eight or nine, very behind when it came to reading levels at school and worrying my parents to death with my incompetence. I remember, very clearly, being the only one in the class who couldn’t read a single line of The Hungry Caterpillar.
Read MoreI’ve just kept one piece advice in my head, one mantra that I fixate on and has become the focal point of my editing. It’s something I heard Neil Gaiman say about editing: “the second draft is about making it look like you knew what you were doing all along.” It’s those few words that are getting me through right now.
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