Peter Wedderburn 30/07/2025 Peter Wedderburn 30/07/2025

Piscium published in ebook format

Its always good to meet a deadline, whether set by someone else or self imposed. Well I just did it. Piscium e book version was scheduled to appear in July 2025, and it is now up on Amazon (although it might not appear on the bookshelf for a couple of days due to the publishing process. Naturally I am pretty excited to make the transition from writer to author, and I hope that the book will get a positive response. The next stage will be to publish the paperback version, which will follow in about a month. There are various organisation issues around this, which I need to get sorted, but I have a team around me to help, so I am confident that deadline can also be achieved. We need to set up Press and Publicity, Social Media and general marketing. I also need to think about the next writing project. More on that later.

This website and the blog posts will be the main information channel for Piscium, so keep checking for further information.

Peter Wedderburn 27/07/2025 Peter Wedderburn 27/07/2025

Exciting times

With the imminent publication of my first Novel. Piscium, there is a sudden rush of new things to consider. Writing is the easy bit. Sit down with a keyboard and screen and let the words flow. The story always has a framework. Not necessarily written down, although sometimes I do sketch out a structure, but certainly existing in my mind. But the writing process puts the flesh on the bones. Characters emerge from the shadows to take on key roles ans subplots are like lanes running off the main road, each of which may provide an interesting destination.

The next bit is harder. Having written “The End” at the first competed manuscript of "Piscium’, I then started the editing process. While my beta readers were positive about the book, then under the working title “Shrike”, a commissioning editor told me that at 170,000 words the book was far too long to be considered for publication. A series of revisions followed, with much of the back story removed, which in itself required a lot of subsequent rewriting. The result was Piscium at comfortably under 100,000 words. but as it turned out, the publishing process was far from over. I’ll talk more about this in the following blog posts, but safe to say it becomes a story in itself.

At a recent dinner party I was explaining that I was going down the self publishing route. The chap sitting next to me said, ‘so, that’s vanity publishing isn’t it?’ Given the metaphorical blood, swear and tears in reaching this point, I can only say that if this was vanity publishing, vanity comes at a very high price.

Please keep an eye out on the peterwedderburn.com website and amazon for the ebook version of Piscium, launching shortly, with a paperback version not far behind.

Peter Wedderburn 28/05/2019 Peter Wedderburn 28/05/2019

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It all begins with an idea.

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Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.