Recent content by M P Goodwin

Hi, sounds to me that you should be able to find someone who can scan that thickness. Here is a link to who I use in the UK. Digital Print Solutions | Think Print | Nottingham Good luck.

Scanning the cardboard might not be possible as many modern printers only have "roller" type scanners capable of the size. However some do have flat bed type scanners that use vaccum suction to keep the medium in place so if you can find a printer with one of those they might be able to do it...

This is excellent stuff...I have the 'save and submit' publishing side of being an author mostly in hand and improvements will come through more writing, but email listing etc. are arcane secrets of the ancients as far as i am concerned. I purchased a number of domain names in readiness for...

Seems to me that I am missing some very basic understanding here so I am going to go away and do some serious research. I have one novel, with more planned, so taking advice from the thread 'What Ive learnt about...' I obviously need to keep writing (currently editing books II and trying to...

Hi, I have recently self-published via Amazon and Apple on their respective eBook platforms and as one might expect sales are low. This is obviously because of a lack of marketing, fan base, etc. etc. and my reliance on word of mouth. I have undoubtedly committed most of the cardinal sins of...

I practised a very intense form of martial arts for many years and a main push was to attain a level of competence that allowed the participants freedom from fear of injury for all parties involved. That is not to say injury did not occur but the freedom from fear meant that sparring became as...

Another interesting thread. For myself I see the entire world in a glorious technicolor but have story boards for each section of the book, say 30k words per section, and with that board as the rails I put my foot down and accelerate hard into the landscape and the characters...and it all just...

I couldn't agree more. I have a major conurbation in a fantasy setting and dropping it into surroundings that are simply incapable of sustaining the population and the commercial aspects of the city would raise so many inconsistencies that I am sure it would make for a poor write, and so a poor...

At the moment my favourite quote is in my signature below. Will it cause controversy I wonder...or is it old news?

I hand draw on A1 paper, designing in pencil, copy the draft in ink, then scan at high res (there's a printer locally with a bed scanner who does it cheap), then convert to Photoshop to add in colour, texture, fonts etc. Though this does take time it does give great results, so much so that I...

Strange, but I was just discussing The Chronicles of Gor in another forum; classic work that hardly anyone has heard of these days, all written in the 60/70's. Utterly not PC and not in any way YA or Light Fantasy but I loved them at the time.

I write if I'm on a train, which can be quite often when I am working, I always carry a notebook for any sudden inspiration, which happens quite a lot, and when I am between projects I write all day...unless I am drawing maps, which need major time investment in their own right, so I try to...

Having practised with the Celtic leaf blade I found the hilt too small and the pommel too large to make a stabbing/thrusting attack very effective against armour and I have small so-called Celtic hands. I can't help feel that the Arming sword is an excellent allrounder and given that it was...

This, as has already been mentioned, is a fascinating thread and one I intend to read completely. In the setting of my novel(s) iron is as rare as rocking horse fodder, making bronze weapons standard use and after doing a deal of research I came across Neil Burridge and am now the very fortunate...

I find maps have three uses; A - For marking the territory described so that all can see or at least agree on where the folk have travelled and might yet travel, and indeed so a reader might take their own journey, as they wander through the design. B - For distilling the world in the mind of...