I've just blogged about forthcoming releases and faffing with things. davidwake.wordpress.com/blog/

Join @authordjmunden.bsky.social, @erinwrightlv.bsky.social, @davidwake.bsky.social, and myself at my Author Joy as an Act of Resistance Panel on Saturday, November 15th! #author #panel

My interview with ZSA, the makers of the Ergodox keyboard, has just been published. Here's a link: people.zsa.io/david-wake/. (Maybe I should use that image as a new author picture.)

How many books is it reasonable, do you think, to launch at a single event? #writing #publishing. I'm writing four at the moment (which is dumb), and a couple might reach the end of the conveyor belt at the same time.

I've had two books I've updated rejected because the edition number doesn't match the interior. I think they're spotting the print key (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer...) and not understanding. But a printing makes no sense with print-on-demand, so a 'POD key' instead, maybe? Any ideas? #pod

I was watching Star Trek: Voyager. “Computer,” Captain Janeway said, “analyse the genetic markers and search Earth’s fossil record. Identify any ancestors common to both humans and the alien in sickbay.” “I’m sorry I can’t help you with that,” said my Echo Dot. Ah, to be living in the future.

I've written about #writing and #biscuits across at my website (and nibbled a malted milk). So, if you have a ginger nut after writing, then perhaps you shouldn't. davidwake.wordpress.com/blog/

Gary ran a role-playing game at the UK Expo games convention with an adventure based on my Derring-Do Club series. I popped in to say, "Hi", only for us to be held up at gunpoint as guards being captured. It was quite weird seeing my characters up to things without having to do any typing.

This is easy if you are writing a fantasy; half the unique words are made up. #writing.

While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

I've just finished the first draft of a novel – phew. Just phew. And phew again. This one seems like it was a long haul. #writing.

How far in percentage terms should enough clues be available for the reader to be able to solve a cosy mystery? #writing #cosymystery.

Once I start rewriting, my Grammarly score always jumps. #writing. #rewriting.

Just created the PDF for the first beta-reader of my work-in-progress. It's a cheat, just the first half, but it is a sign of progress. #writing #publishing.

The Business of Publishing panel now in progress at the Eastercon 2025: Reconnect. ✨📚✨ @davidwake.bsky.social @lunapress.bsky.social @easterconuk.bsky.social #Eastercon #SpeculativeFiction

David Wake talking about self-publishing at the Business of Publishing panel at the Eastercon 2025: Reconnect. 📚 @davidwake.bsky.social @easterconuk.bsky.social #Eastercon #SpeculativeFiction #SelfPublishing #IndiePublishing

A great conversation with @davidwake.bsky.social !! #marketing #authors #podcast #writing #publishing

I've been updating my website and Wordpress has the most unintuitive interface of all time. It's a 'swearing at, look up instructions on Google, where is the button?' sort of a mess. Ho hum.

Let's go!

The UK, a place I love, a place that has given me my career, is a global powerhouse of culture and IP. Film, TV, radio, theater, music, publishing- a river of money and soft power. Yet the actual human beings who provide all that might as well be invisible to knobs in suits, 99% of the time.

Death in Paradise tends to have 4 suspects to keep things simple, Agatha Christie usually had 9 suspects to make it harder to solve, and my work-in-progress has 14 – I don't recommend 14. #writing #cosymystery.

Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social at the Meta protest 🔥

Arrgghh, the editing job came in and I've not finished the first draft of my current work in progress. #writing #editing

Just updated my writeclick program. It does admin in the background while I'm writing. Apart from the issue that I've swapped keys (e.g. shift-comma is a semi-colon), so ':=' is a dance. I've got used to it writing, but not programming. And I've realised I don't understand my own code. #writing

An update for our times.

I've just been interviewed and it's up on YouTube. See here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSQv...

The paperwork for closing my 'He's Spartacus' bank account arrived. (I wasn't going to pay useless Lloyds a fiver a month for an account with no money in it.) So, I used to own a theatre company, and now I don't. Sad really.

If you went to college (university). 1. What was your career goal when you started? 2. Your initial major (degree)? 3. If you changed majors (degree), what did you change to? 4. What do you do now, professionally? 1) Writer. 2) Civil Engineering. 3) Software Engineering. 4) Writer.

A new thing for #newstreetauthos is our zoomwrites. We zoom together, just to say "hi", and turn off our audio and video, for #writing. We check in hourly. It's as if we have work colleagues in a quiet office. For me, it forces me to avoid the endless admin that's the bane of my life.

Hello all, I'm the author, David Wake.

Hello, I'm the writer of the Derring-Do Club series and other books.