lukebellmason

I have been reading a lot of H.P. Lovecraft lately, from a giant book of his collected works that I bought last year. This book is huge, by the way, and weighs enough to take down an elk. It's best read at night, in bed, in an old house at the top of a hill in a village with a churchyard, which is how I have been reading it. February is definitely the perfect season to read Lovecraft, with the rain lashing the windows, and it is made all the more relevant by my current situation. Like the...

Last Day (Night) on the Job A lot of writers say that they fear the blank page, but not me. The page is very rarely blank for long anyway. If I can’t think of anything else to write down I put the date in the top left corner. Then I write the name of the project I’m working on, and underline it. This year’s project is simply called ‘2026’, which is a date anyway. As last year was all about launching the Quanta-B Tales, this year is about filling in my time with something else. There are...

Q1 REPORT At the end of December Bellmason Books completed its first quarter as a publisher, and with only one title currently in our catalogue the sales results are very surprising. When I first uploaded The Quanta-B Tales to Amazon I was worried that I wouldn’t sell a single copy, but I am pleased to announce that I have sold a single copy. Added to the three hardback books sold at the launch this makes four copies of the book sold, which averages out to 1.3 books per month. There is some...