Reflections On A Birthday

*Gasp!* A personal, self-indulgent post! On a blog devoted to nothing more than shamelessly promoting my own upcoming work and stirring up interest! Who’d have thought? …As if every word that comes out of my mouth isn’t self-indulgent. Anyway. Carrying on. A few days ago, I completed my twenty-fifth turn around the sun. The day […]

A Thousand Hits, A Smattering of Hints

Oh, my. Well. That particular milestone crept up on me a lot quicker than I’d anticipated. It seems incredibly churlish to whine or complain about the rate at which the hit counter is racking up hits, but still. It’s scuppered my plans a little, but I suppose there are worse problems to have when building […]

A North Harrovian Tangent

This Wednesday, I was invited by my old student friend Ramya to give a lecture over Zoom to the Writers’ Group of the North Harrow Community Library. I talked in detail about the self-publishing approach to getting in print, and my current experience of it. We also covered the differing pros and cons of various […]

Hybrids and Scams

So, ‘weekly’ blogging my arse. Apologies for just how late this post turned out to be, folks. A close family member went to hospital to have a routine operation – something that, these days, is even more of a logistical nightmare than usual – and after a few days of complications, setbacks and jaw-droppingly alarming […]

A Milestone and a Blurb!

So… Anyone following the hit count on here as zealously as I am (in short… no-one) may have noticed that, as of this morning, the website hit quite a significant milestone. Significant for me, anyway. 500 hits in less than 3 weeks! I’m blown away, utterly, by the support so far from both friends and […]

‘So, What’s Your Novel About?’

The title says it all, really. Two weeks in, and it’s safe to say I can’t really avoid the subject any more. In my last two posts, I’ve alluded to a few vague facts about the novel, none of which give you any real feel or ‘hook’ into the story. If I’m going to keep […]

AuthorTube Newbie Tag! (Without the -Tube…)

I know, I know, it hasn’t been 7 full days yet. Sue me. I spend quite a bit of time on AuthorTube – the collective name for authors and novelists who have YouTube channels dedicated to their work, and to writing in general. It’s a brilliant place both for inspiration (seeing how people in the […]

The One Where It All Began!

I’m not remotely into Friends, but that struck me as a fairly apt title for my very first blog post. I’m Vijay Hare, as I’m sure you know. It’s in fairly big letters on this site… and if I’m being honest, at this point the only people reading this are people I know personally. I […]