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<p>I&#8217;ve overtyped this week so I thought I&#8217;d do a video instead: Feline Fatale paperback is available for $7.99 at Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/2f1gB3K or £6.99 at Amazon.co.uk:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feline-Fatale-Eddie-Mystery-Mys…/…/</p>

<p>I&#8217;m looking for beta-readers to read my 23,217 word comedy-mystery novella: &#8216;Feline Fatale&#8217;. It&#8217;s a story set in England about two young detectives who attempt to find a missing cat to impress a middle-aged woman they have a crush on. It&#8217;s part of the &#8216;Rex &amp; Eddie Mysteries&#8217; series I&#8217;m writing. The previous novel was &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/beta-readers-w

<p>I had some fun with the word cloud creating website www.wordle.net and inputted all the reviews for my book Catchee Monkey. The results were interesting. The character&#8217;s names show up biggest, which makes sense since it is also name of the series &#8211; Rex &amp; Eddie Mysteries. Next up was &#8220;book,&#8221; &#8220;read,&#8221; and &#8220;story;&#8221; which are obvious &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/ca

<p>On April 23th 2015 I&#8217;ll be doing a reading from my comedy-mystery novel Catchee Monkey. The event is called Book&#8217;d in Burbank and takes place at the Theater Banshee, 3435 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, 91505. As part of the literary entertainment there will be total of six readings spanning many genres: mystery, comedy, young adult, &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/reading-event-burbank/" onclick="return Tr

<p>This November I took part in NaNoWriMo, or National November Writing Month. The goal was to write 50,000 words in a month, which works out at 1667 words a day for 30 days. I&#8217;ve never written that consistently before. In fact I&#8217;ve collected data from the last six months and even thought I&#8217;d set the &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/nanowrimo-results/" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fsean-ca

<p>&nbsp; This month I will be taking part in National Novel Writing Month or #NaNoWriMo. I&#8217;m gonna write the first draft of the sequel to Catchee Monkey: A Rex &amp; Eddie Mystery, and it will be 50,000 words (gulp). Below is the contract I signed with myself to keep myself accountable, which came from the &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/nanowrimo-2014/" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fsean-cameron.co

<p>In the next 6 weeks I will publish a book to Kindle. I&#8217;ve been writing for fifteen years. At 16 I started working on little stories and developing scripts and that&#8217;s evolved into writing for a living for a music website or even odd jobs here and there writing TV segments and video game dialogue. &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/love-or-fear-2/" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fsean-cameron.com%2

<p>Most of my writing has been in the form of screenplays so when transitioning into novel-writing it&#8217;s difficult to gage what skills, tips and tricks transfer to the novel format. Usually the answer is: if it&#8217;s simple it works. No advice I&#8217;ve seen has been as simple, and impressive, as Trey Parker&#8217;s &#8220;therefore&#8221; strategy. In &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/trey-parker-writing-tips/

<p>Thanks to Scrivener I&#8217;ve learnt a new way to up my proofing game. I have great difficulty proofing my own work. A written piece is never finished and there is always something that could be changed. To turn of the part of my brain that wants to re-write the whole thing and keep the part &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/can-you-find-the-mistake/" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fsean-cameron.com%2Fcan-

<p>Writing can be a right pain in the bum sometimes. At these moments you have to make yourself get on with it. The best way for me is to run the Freedom app which blocks the internet, turn on iTunes and get writing. When I&#8217;m not blocking the internet I&#8217;ve noticed there is a growing crop &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/carrot-stick/" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fsean-cameron.com%2Fcarrot-stick

<p>At the beginning of the year I set some goals for the first quarter of the year. This is an update on my success and what I learned. I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. &#8211; Douglas Adams. Between January 1st and March 31st I set out to &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/deadlines/" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fsean-cameron.com%2Fdeadlines%2F','Read+More++Read+More')">

<p>Sometimes changing a story from first person to third person can be a bloody pain. The world view completely changes and it needs a complete re-write. Sometimes, it&#8217;s easy peasy lemon squeezy. If the character&#8217;s voice isn&#8217;t any different from the narrative voice then it can simply be a matter of find and replace. For &hellip; </p> <p class="read-more"><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://sean-cameron.com/first-to-third-person-a-guide/" onclick="return