Browsing Archive: August, 2025

To Buy or Not to Buy

Posted by K. S. Dearsley on Wednesday, August 13, 2025,
There is a library that gives borrowers a ticket showing them how much they have saved by going to the library instead of buying the books. No doubt, the intention is to encourage more readers to use libraries, but surely the purpose of libraries is to make books available to those who cannot afford them, and to encourage readers to experiment with their choice of reading, not to deter those who can afford it from buying books.
Among the arguments for and against the practice put forward by m...
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Broadening Horizons

Posted by K. S. Dearsley on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, In : Inspiration 
Self-publishing isn't for the indecisive. As if agonising over whether it's better to use this word or that, or to cut or not to cut, isn't enough, when you self-publish you're faced with a seemingly endless stream of choices about how you want your manuscript to look.
I've been putting together the Iyessi song lyrics that I originally wrote as chapter headers for the Exiles of Ondd novels. I want to publish them on Kindle and Draft2Digital as well as an illustrated paperback. As the digital ...
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My writing career began as a freelance feature writer for the local press, businesses and organisations. Now a prize-winning playwright and short story writer, my work has appeared in numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic. I write as K. S. Dearsley because it saves having to keep repeating my forename, and specialise in fantasy and other speculative genres.

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