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• Indie Writers Book Fair (Huntingdon) and a catch up
• Respite and random thoughts about faith…
• A very unwelcome conundrum …
• This week I have mostly been … a bit of a twat.
• Eyebomb, Therefore I Am: new book release
• Aftermath …
• The end …
• This week I have been mostly …
• Balls … all of it.
• Modern life is rubbish!
• Eyebomb … everything. Publishing news.
• Let’s talk about pigeons …
• We’re not at home to Mr Cockup. Oh no, no, no, no.
• Coronated … and some
• Come with me on a journey through my exciting life!
• The chaos fairies … just for a smecking change
• Discombobulation … is the name of the game
• 2022 in Focus, career version
• In retrospect …
• Enjoy yourself …
• Compassion … so fucking underrated
• Stuff happened … I even remembered some
• All the things … so many things …
• Self Care, Hospital Care, Dementia Care
• The dementia life sentence …
• Siberian hamsters and other alarums and excursions …
• And his mummy cried …
• Spigotry …
• Still hanging in there …
• Weird things …
• This week I have mostly been … poisoning myself.
• Oh shit … warning: venting ahead.
• Fucks given? Zero. And a book review
• Deserted landmarks and empty milestones …
• This week I am mostly … wittering
• The Chaos Fairies are back … the little bastards.
• It is accomplished
• Happy New Year … briefly.
• Here’s a Christmas Easter Egg …
• I ai’tn’t dead … honest.
• Licensed to chill …
• Adventures … many of them.
• There was an old lady who swallowed a fly …
• Urgh! Just kill me now …
• Dreams, weirdness and …
• Yikes …
• Best foot forward …
• Interesting times
• In brief …
• MTM Fails at modern life …
• Birthdays and some inane wittering
• Floating aimlessly
• Life in plastic is fantastic …
• Let’s talk about THINGS!
• An incredibly witty title that will entice visitors to my site
• Unicorn farts and other sundry ephemora
• Arnold’s snot!
• Another fine mess I’ve got me into …
• Ouch …
• Tuesday treat: A literary giant visits …
• Small wins …
• Had I but world enough, and time …
• And finally …
• Thinness, lacklustreness and bling …
• So much cobblers …
• That was … a hell of a week.
• Well! There’s a thing …
• Dunce hats on casa McGuire … yes, once again #youstillcantfixstupid
• What? More twattery? #youcantfixstupid
• There is no end to my unending twattery.
• We’re not at home to Mr Cock-up … Ah. It seems I’ve just told a lie.
• Ouch. Post surgery blues … they come to us all
• Careful with that ACX Eugene … #audiblegate
• Operation ouch …
• If I die before I wake …
• Let’s talk about Things …
• That’s … a bit of a thing.
• I am a luddite. It’s official.
• Winning at cars and losing at life …
• I aitn’t dead
• How does it work? Audiobooks.
• Well … that was weird …
• Treasure
• Arnold’s pants!
• This week I have been mostly …
• This week, I have been mostly …
• Hmm …
• MTM fails at modern life … bleargh and t’ing … but then again #AtHomeYALC
• Smug mode …
• General wittering …
• Dementia too, because obviously dementia once wasn’t shit enough
• Down, down, down in a burning ring of fire … a ring of fire …
• Well there’s a thing …
• This week I have been mostly been …
• Handcart locked and loaded. Destination: Hell … mind the doors please.
• Dementia redux; rinse and repeat …
• Today, a bunny thing happened …
• Sod’s law and other constants …
• Yay! Guest blog from Tallis Steelyard
• Random thoughts …
• Interesting times …
• Nobody told me there’d be days like these …
• On reflection …
• Woah …
• Sweeping the cat for tinfoil and other adventures …
• Still living the dream …
• Living on the edge …
• It’s a mad/happy/mad/happy world!
• This, that and audio marketing …
• A little bit of mousework …
• A vole lot of trouble going on …
• Nothing To See Here …
• Chip off the old block …
• Quality can’t be rushed …
• Why is life so fucking annoying?
• And now … this!
• 20:20 in 2020? Probably not.
• Birth of The Prophet Greetings to one and All … and a mini whinge.
• Shenannagins …
• What on God’s green earth am I doing?
• Let’s talk about things …
• Alarums, excursions and jolly japes
• Guest post: Silent Justice, by Tallis Steelyard
• Shiny things and other news!
• Ham, Jam and Spam.
• New releases and MTM twattery …
• My lord! I bring news!
• A snapshot of blue …
• Fockers and other things …
• Random news and an appeal … sort of …
• This week, I am mostly, cheating!
• Disappearing cats and disappearing money …
• It’s cake, Jim, but not as we know it…
• Random stuff …
• More thoughts about grief …
• This week I am mostly …
• It’s not who you know, it’s what you know …
• Grief
• My Ann Elk theory on OCD and authordom
• Angry
• Registering a death … the difficult way
• The end
• The end … probably.
• Can I do this in ten minutes? No? Stuff it then.
• There may be trouble ahead … #dementia
• Red alert at Ice Station Zebra … And the Pile Howitzer
• What the fuck do I call my new series and other quandaries …
• And now for something completely different!
• This will end in tears … the chaos continues
• How does this even happen?
• Adventures and alarums!
• This last three months I’ve been mostly …
• Knowledge comes when you least expect it …
• Blog Tour: Everything going swimmingly ~ Jim Webster
• Let me take you by the hand and lead you …
• This week I have mostly been … unmentionable.
• Farting around …
• Out of the mouths of babes and … budgies.
• You need to know the truth about the elephant in the room.
• More bad parenting.
• Trust me, I’m an expert … mwahahahaahrgh!
• Feels like Friday!
• New stuff, has landed! Woot!
• New Stuff? Yeh, excerpt, new release and old stuff for 40% off!
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, the topic NO-ONE wants to talk about.
• Accepting the way dementia transforms someone you love.
• The sky is falling apparently … again.
• The lady vanishes, or at least, the kids do …
• A family take on remembrance
• Updates, ramblings and witterings
• Rarer than unicorn shit.
• The downside of making progress
• The day-to-day challenges of being a fuckwit and other stuff …
• This week, I have been mostly … reading.
• Aaargh! Am I turning into an adult?
• Jumbled thoughts on metal detecting, dementia and happiness.
• Where have I been?
• The days when it drives you crazy! #dementia
• A chip off the old block …
• Calling all readers of humorous sci fi and fantasy …
• This week, I have been mostly … writing.
• Online lobotomy anyone?
• Uh oh. The Chaos Fairies are back …
• Read any good books lately?
• What I know now, that I wish I knew then …
• That’s Alzheimer’s not Dad.
• How a battery charger saved my bacon …
• Chin up lass!
• A bit of a sad one …
• It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to … #dementia #ranting
• Gumbification is the name of the game: the capriciousness of science, things and me.
• Pussy Galore’s Younger Sister …
• Real Life is underrated. Using mundane events to fuel your writing mojo.
• Toboggan update, a war story and McMini versus Alexa.
• Look at my huge pussy! #IWD2018 #womenwriters #internationalwomensday #seewomenwrite
• Sleigh that again?
• How not to live number 12: Drains, mailings and finance #IFuckedThisUpSoYouDontHaveTo
• Round up!
• The pool-eyed lady
• What do you see when you look at me?
• Calm in a crisis; elementary burglary for dunderheads …
• New M T McGuire release … sort of and Kobo Sale
• Welcome to my world. Oh look! It’s like a car crash only less pretty …
• To Infinity and Beyond! Plans for 2018. #Newyearsresolution (sort of).
• Ten a penny … Tena pants … Bittersweet Christmas
• Navel Gazing and Pocket Lint; MTM’s Year in Publishing 2017
• (Brandy)Butter balls; a bit of Christmas wittering.
• When dyslexic people try to fill in forms … #dementia
• Beeper and Bingy, and free books … #randomwittering #metaldetecting #mcmini
• Coming to terms with #dementia
• How not to do things number 53: Parenting #badparent
• When it feels right but is … wrong. #writing #indiebooks
• Guest post: Touching the void #horror #books
• Win a laughter library and Kobo’s 40% off sale. #kobo #giveaways
• Just the basic facts? I wish.
• Excerpt from one of the W.I.P.s #amwriting #comedybooks
• Real treasure isn’t always shiny #writing #metaldetecting
• If I’d made this up, no-one would believe me. #dementia
• Searching for the truth, at all costs #TallFamilyTales
• A surprise house guest.
• Sad
• Books anyone? A few words about MTMail, building a fanbase and Instafreebie. #bookmarketing
• Smashingly non-expensive books alert!
• Mind Expansion Anyone? #McMini #kids #parenting #children
• When the luck unicorn farts …
• Meh and un-meh. Thoughts, ramblings and a progress report.
• This week, I have been mostly thinking about #marketing #bookmarketing #indiereads
• And now for something completely different … #eyebombing #eyebombthereforeiam
• The Daesh: it’s not because they’re Muslims, it’s because they’re tossers. #WeStandTogether #LondonBridge #wearenotafraid #thingsthatgetbritainreeling
• A Charming Child: guest post by the inestimable Tallis Steelyard #newbooks
• Welcome to my GORGEOUS Life! On humorous giveaways and being embarrassed by your kids.
• This week, I am mostly ranting about … everything
• Mailing lists: the all embracing panacea or the hamster wheel of doom?
• This week, I has been mostly reading … #qualityindies #indiereads #books
• Learning the hard way, or at least, the cold squelchy way…
• An Offer You Can’t Refuse on a day that, unless you’re British, you won’t understand.
• This week, I have been mostly reading books!
• Can I have fried brains with that? Time management/productivity hacks for writers #amwriting #writingtips #timemanagement
• I bring you tidings of great joy … probably.
• On book covers? Am I nuts? #notosexism #isitjustme #yesitisjustme
• Lots of 99c and free books AND a giveaway! #funnybooks #99cbooks #freebooks #giveaway
• Do you believe in socialism or the labour party? And other questions. #rantmodeon
• MTM’s Epiphany epiphany – or the Wenlock Edge Moment
• The traditional MTM Christmas Post #scrooge #bahhumbug #chaosfairies #jollyjapes
• Fartyville welcomes careful drivers: join me in my world.
• Evolved or spun? Meet my shorts. Born Free: news, views and free books … #giveaway #sffbooks
• Evaluation is the name of the game … or is it just spin? Some career decisions
• How not to launch an ebook. The K’Barthan Box Set is out. #Newbooks #KBarthan
• Oh no! The world’s been tangoed!
• I want to be straight! (Yeh) I want to be straight! I’m sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late.
• More lovely authors to discover from #instafreebie
• Confessions of shonky housewifery, bad cat mothers and wicked pets. #domesticdisasters
• A little light relief #jollyjapes #sillypictures
• #girlsnightout Thank you to all my sponsors. Here’s how it went.
• The difference between intention and delivery. How not to prepare for a charity walk. #girlsnightout
• Meet Bugly: #Whovian #JollyJapes
• Wait! I’m not ready! #GirlsNightOut, 26 days and counting!
• And it’s another one! Win a #Kindle Fire and 30 #fantasy #books
• Discover new authors and be in with a chance to win a Kindle Fire #giveaways
• Just another day in paradise!
• #ComedyBookWeek, two reviews.
• #ComedyBookWeek starts today!
• Lost: My marbles, reward for their safe return.
• Oh dear, it’s not them. It IS me. #remain #leave
• Is it me that’s nuts or them?
• Getting my act together – Guest Post from Jim Webster
• Lots of books for no pence… including mine #freeebooks
• My Permafree Experience … #bookmarketing #nicholasrossis
• Sci-fi and fantasy authors cut their own throats to bring readers a #99c book #bargain. Like Mr Dibbler.
• Careful with that axe Eugine! Drama at the garage: how MTM learns there are two sides to every argument.
• Killing Zombies with household pets and other stories. It’s Bloghop time! Books 2 Brain Cyber Convention Sci-fi Blog hop! Stop 4 Excerpts!
• A free box, an embarrassing parent and over 100 #free #scifi_books!
• Underground, Overground, Wombling Free…!
• Two #KindleFire #Giveaways and a book recommendation.
• Lo! Unto You is Born… my #Christmas #giveaway. Win a #KoboGlo and some eBooks.
• Spectrum is green! My #NewRelease Escape From B-Movie Hell is Go!
• You may choose bath time, or DEATH.
• #NewRelease by M T McGuire Pending.
• Surviving trolls, extremism and other curses of modern life
• Detail: What Noticing Stuff means to a writer.
• A question of perception
• Read MTM’s Interview: Win Stuff.
• Discover new authors and win stuff.
• Welcome to my world…
• Meet M T and A F E at the Darkhaven Facebook Launch Party.
• Turning the kaleidoscope
• Politics: MTM’s post election rantathon.
• Marathon Man and Team GB: A Personal Appeal from Me.
• MTM Talks… and talks… and talks…
• Dipping my toe into the world of #Sci-fi #Romance
• Goodnight and God Bless.
• Guest Post. Handy hints on developing a villain over a series.
• In search of a prince – or the ups and downs of frog kissing…
• Still Eating Snail and Tortoise Dust but Learning to Like the Taste
• Goodbye my friend…
• Missed the M T #interview on Radio Suffolk? Here’s a link.
• M T #interview on Radio Suffolk today.
• MTMail: with added incentives. Are you on my mailing list?
• It seems I’m #KBarthan even though I live here.
• 2014 in review – I’ve never had one of these before! Blog round up from WordPress
• All I need is Little Nellie! Learning to love #Christmas (and myself).#scrooge
• A year end Christmas round up thank you thingy!
• How did it all go? What I learned from doing a #booksigning
• #BookReview of Myrddin’s Heir, Book 1 A Wizard of Dreams by Robin Chambers #rrbc
• Press and publicity. Could I? Should I? M T’s upcoming stall at #BurySt Edmunds Christmas Fayre.
• What’s in a book cover? A change gives a different perspective on an established series.
• Forget selling. Focus on #writing.
• You can #win a #kindle (oh yes you can).
• Still alive and prattling on about my book. #books #bestsellers (no, really).
• Metal detecting, and its relation to my hopes as an #indie #writer
• Secrets of the K’Barthan Series unlocked.
• In celebration of Harvest…
• What am I doing here?
• Eyebomb, therefore, I am.
• What makes a good bad guy?
• I am now, officially hybrid… I think.
• Blogging Off Piste and Visiting the Real World.
• Cover reveal! Latest Windemere instalment from Charles E Yallowitz.
• Are you talking to me pal?
• Is your life a French farce too?
• At my back I always hear time’s winged chariot hurrying near…
• Help! Help! It’s the Chaos Fairies… and some other stuff…
• Words With A Fellow Petrolhead
• What do you see, you people looking at me?
• Oh no, the M word! Yes. Marketing.
• Entrails, Omens, Eggciting News and Eggstraordinary Matters…
• K’Barthan 3 is out soon… oh yes it is!
• One Man: No Plan is available to pre-order from…
• A little light fluff… literally
• Amazon Recommended Reading.
• Stand down… all units.
• Limbo…
• Box 010 Results: Number 12, Angela Burkhead
• Oooo! Shiny thing!
• Monsters, Magic Items, and Thingies from M T McGuire
• Box 010: Number 12, Angela Burkhead
• Stealth Marketing in the Grand Tradition of the British Navy.
• You who? You what? You where? You… eh?
• Even More McMini
• That’s… quite a thing.
• You what?
• Box 010 Results: Number 11 C. E. Martin
• An ad hoc sort of world: Introducing Mr Jim Webster and the Tsarina Sector.
• Amazon is not your friend – reblogged from Chuck Wendig
• French without tears?
• Castles in the Sky. Feet in the…
• Box 010: Number 11, C. E. Martin
• Book Blog Chain. Yes, I’ve been tagged.
• Fed up with eating snail and tortoise dust? Join us the #slowwriters.
• Super Sweet Blogging Award and a litle bit of #tbsu
• Cover Reveal. K’Barthan Trilogy, Books 3 and 4. Yes, you read that correctly. ‘Trilogy’ and ‘Book 4’.
• Hybrid. Not just for cars.
• After the first three thousand years we’ve about got it right.
• This explains a lot
• More McMini
• You see a meal…
• Excellent books at knock down prices
• Happy Christmas
• Humble pie: quite a big slice.
• Nelson Mandela: 1918 – 2013. A truly great man.
• Aw bollocks it’s the Chaos Fairies! Never mind here’s another gem from McMini.
• Shingles anybody? It’ll make you feel better.
• Things you don’t know about parenting until you try it Number 63: Night Terrors.
• Yes, you can polish a turd… if you light it well.
• And now, an interview!
• Monday Author Meetup: MT McGuire
• Author Interiew
• Am I what I eat? I hope not.
• How to get fit without trying.
• Roll up, roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour, step right this way!
• “Come in to my parlour,” said the spider to the fly.
• Why Slow is Good for E-Publishing
• Look what I found!
• Here’s to embracing my inner tortoise. Hello Mr Hare, would you like to try some Mogadon?
• McMini
• Win a Kindle Paperwhite at the Awesome Indies Grand Opening Party. Last day today.
• Why do Authors choose the independent route? Find out at the AIA Opening Party today.
• Visit the AIA Grand Opening party for a fun quiz.
• Who is the piano playing dog? Find out at the AIA Grand Opening Party.
• The Awesome Indies Grand Opening Party; 26 top reads at just 99 cents each, plus 5 days of partying! Oh… yeh… and you can win a kindle paperwhite.
• More McMini…
• Trust Me, I’m a “Designer”
• Box 010 Number 10: Results, Michael Cargill
• Redline it but don’t pop it.
• Box 010 Number 10: Michael Cargill
• That’s genius mate.
• Box 010 Results: Number 9, Lynda Wilcox
• Box 010: Number 9, Lynda Wilcox
• Write a story and win Amazon vouchers!
• Box 010 Results: Number 8, David Haywood Young.
• An interview with Will MacMillan Jones, author of Bass Instinct
• M T McGuire
• Real life is not like films…
• Box 010: Number 8, David Haywood Young
• Dangerous situations: How not to do the school run.
• Guest post: How do I write? by Tahlia Newland
• Box 010 Results: Number 7 Will Macmillan Jones
• Box 010: Number 7, Will Macmillan Jones
• Box 010 Results: Number 6 Jaq D Hawkins
• I’ve got my inner lumberjack out, and the painters in: Luck is in the eye of the beholder.
• Women writing sci-fi? Disgraceful!
• Indie Bites
• Bargain Boost!
• Box 010: Number 6, Jaq D Hawkins
• More from McMini
• Box 010 Results: Number 5, Jean Gill
• Box 010: Number 5, Jean Gill
• Box 010 Results: Number 4, A.F.E. Smith
• Cynical bollocks, and so’s the latest branding exercise from Abercrombie & Fitch
• Box 010: Number 4, A.F.E. Smith
• Note to self: Must buy fairy dust.
• Results: Box 010 Number 3, Jim Webster.
• Box 010: Number 3, Jim Webster
• Results. Box 010: No 2, Simon Royle
• Box 010: Number 2, Simon Royle
• Treasure hunting. Naval gazing.
• Awesome Indies award Seal of Approval to Few Are Chosen
• Results. Box 010: Number 1, Michael Brookes
• Box 010: Number 1, Michael Brookes
• Hello. My name is M T McGuire and I’m an Authorholic
• Barren Island Books
• Hello Stranger
• Basking…
• Reasons to be Cheerful
• I knew I shouldn’t have shown him that book on Florence Nightingale
• Awards, rewards and stuff…
• Awesome Indies decide The Wrong Stuff is the right stuff.
• Happy New Year. Hung Over?
• Christmas Bonus
• Hang onto this…
• Hello, good evening and thank you.
• A little of what you fancy does you good.
• When real life treads on your hands…
• Glamour, glamour everywhere…
• Few Are Chosen Officially Declared Awesome.
• Mini Man Says….
• The Next Big Thing…
• Few Are Chosen by Awesome Indies but they chose Few Are Chosen!
• It’s World James Bond Day!
• If you thought The Wrong Stuff was the right stuff… and you’re interested. Location photos.
• This week, I have mostly been doing interviews!
• It’s a snurd, Jim: but not as we know it…
• Publishing is dead: Long live… publishing?
• Nice guys don’t finish last… they just finish slowly.
• 50 shades of… Mmm…
• I’ve got my mojo working baby and I’m gonna try it out on you…
• Have a look at my box. Phnark
• Why Can’t Indies Punctuate Dialogue? I Think I Know.
• The Overnight Success Myth and Other Stories…
• Talking about unblocking drains…
• More Light fluff from McMini
• Is ‘indie’ the new ‘crap’?
• McMini Says
• Bla bla Bla BLURB too
• Hello New Blog
• New Free e-short
• 101 things you never knew about publishing, number 53
• Erk
• Taking the plunge
• Lorks!
• Free publicity for e-books
• I’ll have a P please Bob
• The Value of Re-reading…
• Blimey!
• New Freebie
• Brief summary of copyright for UK authors
• Kathy Lette says she admires me!
• Top tips for writers…
• Audio publishing…
• The first hurdle…
• Something Novel…