This Writing Life

Novellist Ian Hocking: accidentally best-selling since 2011

Tag: Saskia Brandt

So I signed up to a Russian evening class, Comrade

Like you do. Or rather, like I did. I’ve stopped going now because I was exceptionally poor at forming even the simplest sentences. Aliya Whiteley is – apart from being a great comedo-tagico-Ilfracombo novelista – studying for an MSc in Library and Information Management. As part of this, she interviewed me about the resources I [...]

★ Flashback

It’s been five years coming, but my novel Flashback, sequel to Déjà Vu, is now available in the Kindle store. The price is £2.13 in the UK and something approximating that in the US. To be honest, this is a little more expensive than I intended. I was – and still am – aiming for [...]

The End

Regular readers of this blog – hey Dad; hey Google robot – will wonder where my fingers have been for the past few weeks. Not updating this blog much, that’s for sure. No; I’ve been completing the first draft of the third Saskia Brandt novel.

Twittering through Time

What is Twitter? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. Via Wikipedia You’ll have [...]

What’s the story, Hocking?

It’s been an embarrassingly long time since I updated this blog. The last proper entry was posted on the 17th of March. While there are several reasons for the slow down – a trip to Germany, a ton of student marking – the chief problem is that this blog is meant to document my writing [...]

Saskia Brandt 1, Ian Hocking 0

There are many senses in which the writing life is an easy one. For example, one sits down a lot. The commute is short. No boss pops up like the shopkeeper in Mr Ben to ask why you’re checking Facebook when you know very well that the invoice for eight thousand and one paperclips should [...]