Page is a funny town along the Colorado River. It’s dry. It’s desolate. There is zero mobile reception. There is not a single tree or blade of grass to bee seen anywhere. There is a disgusting factory at the edge of town. It’s full of motels, hotels and other forms…
So the next part was a tour of Monument Valley. It was a bright and clear day, but OMG the pictures don’t show how COLD it was. The iconic view. It’s a bunny! Imagine going to this (very well-appointed) high school here (building with the green roof).
After Bryce Canyon, we were up for a big drive, from Bryce Canyon to Monument Valley, slightly complicated by the fact that up until now, the directions had either been clear or we’d used Google Maps. Uhm. No reception. AAAARRGGH. Technology. So we’re at this big intersection, and the option…
We stayed in Ruby’s Inn at Bryce Canyon National Park for two nights. Being January, there was almost no one in the entire hotel, and OMG, it was cold. We walked the entire rim trail, and took hundreds of photographs of the snow and the weird rock formations below. The…
If you’re like me, you probably feel yourself a little besieged right now. Yes, I just went through my inbox, and deleted yet another handful of “GDPR-compliance” emails, exhorting me to tick a box in order to stay on a list. I delete them. The senders are nuts, uninformed lemmings…
When you’re in Zion National Park, there is a road that takes a steep, hairpin-riddled shortcut up to the top of the rocky platform and you can drive from there through farmland and forest to Bryce Canyon. The road gets quite busy in summer, I’ve been told, but in January,…
Slowly working through all the photos. We stayed in Vegas for one night, as you will have seen in the previous post, and the next day left to go north. Where the main road goes through a narrow pass, it started to get cold, and then it got colder, and…
I have to admit that I don’t like cities, and so we left LA as quickly as possible (and I don’t like LA in particular), and had no great desire to go to any more cities, except Las Vegas was on the way, and a friend here in Sydney said:…
This question comes up quite a bit amongst new writers. They have finished manuscript and I wondering what to do with it. They may feel discouraged by the long and arduous process of finding a publisher, and they’re wondering whether to just self-publish. One thing I should say. Whether or…
The book launch. How important is it for success? In some circles of writers, there is a lot of talk about book launches. Certainly in the traditionally published world, book launches can be a vehicle for promotion. A book’s launch period is the time where it sits in a prominent…
