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I like pubs a lot, to the extent that I have invested several thousand of my hard-earned in them over the years. So it’s always sad to...

Cards on the table – I can’t stand AI in any form in the creative industries. There’s no need for it. Develop your own talent, people....

Flying Ant Day. Such a big event, they named a book after it. Or at least I did. Although my Flying Ant Day contains not a single...

How to grade magic when, let’s face it, most of it is trickery, sleight of hand and distraction? Well, let’s just give these people...

I've seen this several times from ebook reviewers in my (so far fruitless) search to find someone to review my books: reviewers asking...

Tuck in to a free helping of Jon Lymon's Jake Rodwell zombie apocalypse series A Big Bluff and Some Green Stuff : Not for the first time...

What great value an Amis novel is. I don't subscribe to his father Kingsley's view that he should show off his literary talents a little...

Nobody wants to interview you. That's the first reality of self serve author interviews that needs to be dealt with here. As an unknown,...

I'm talking a really bad book review. Like one star out of five. Like they would have given zero stars if that option were possible....

When you were a kid, or whenever you started dreaming of being a successful novelist, chances are you never dreamt of seeing your work on...

The pub in A Big Bluff and Some Green Stuff , The Smuggler’s Retreat, is at the epicentre of plenty of bloodthirsty activity. It’s also...

The Jon Lymon Blog is really taking off. So much so that I’m contemplating the big question: When should I monetize my blog?   Authoring...

Here's an excerpt plucked from the midst of my 4th and, if memory serves, most difficult to write novel. A free sample of A Dead Chick...

There it was, gone. As quickly as it arrived on my sales dashboard, the incredible, miraculous, stupendous, disappearing sale had...

The sun shines on every dog’s arse at least once.   It’s a saying that a friend of mine regularly uses, and it aptly illustrates me on...

As a writer of zombie fiction that doesn’t sell particularly well, I often feel honour-bound to read zombie fiction that does sell well....

Fans of this blog, and I know there's at least one of you, will no doubt be aware that I'm not averse to having a little rant. A vent. A...

Yes, I am talking in the singular. One. Uno and whatever the first and the lowest number is in other languages.   As many fellow indie...

There’s only one surefire way for a writer to achieve zero sales, and that’s to write and publish precisely nothing.   Nothing fails...

Here's a free excerpt from The Wronged by Jon Lymon: Saltonstall Farm was not a regular haunted house, and yet outwardly it possessed all...