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Andrew John Rainnie - Blog entry 07

Ending the year on a low

T’was the eve before Christmas Eve,And all through the house,Not a creature was stirring,Because we were all bed-ridden with flu. It seems apt that I am going to end 2024 on a low note, coughing and wheezing to the finish line, feeling my age in my weary bones. It was a year of dismay, trudging […]

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Andrew John Rainnie blog - The Art of Procrastination

The Art of Procrastination

Seeing as this is my first blog post in four months, I thought procrastination might be a good subject to touch upon, and why it’s actually a good thing. There’s an old joke that 90% of writing books is procrastinating about them. That’s because you can procrastinate anywhere. I usually procrastinate on my long dog

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Andrew John Rainnie blog - I should talk about my books more

I should talk about my books more

I often think of myself as a screenwriter who stumbled into writing books when a fantasy word grew beyond the confines of a screenplay. If someone asks me what I’m working on, my mind naturally gravitates to the backlog of scripts and treatments languishing in a folder on my computer. I am somewhat envious of

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ajr blog 03

Judging a book by its cover

We all do it. I thought the first cover I did of my first novel, Spirits of Vengeance: The Stone of Spirits, was amazing. When a small publisher picked it up, they insisted on redesigning the cover. It was so hideous that I battled with them to exit the contract that I had only just

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