Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: Aug. 15, 2011

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K C Murdarasi

Biography

K C Murdarasi is a writer from Glasgow, Scotland. She is a graduate of the University of St Andrews, where she gained a first in Ancient History. Since then she has been a perplexed missionary, a bored secretary and a harried nanny. She has been writing professionally since 2007. Her first novel, Leda, was published in February 2012. Since then she has written two books for the Christian Focus Trailblazers series for young people, Augustine: The Truth Seeker and Patrick: The Boy Who Forgave. She currently lives in one of the coolest neighbourhoods in Glasgow with a budgie and a collection of dying houseplants.

Smashwords Interview

What is your writing process?
Sit down at the computer to write.
Check emails.
Act on emails.
Think "I'd better not check social media."
Check social media.
Get hungry / thirsty - take a break.
Return to computer and repeat until blind panic at lack of progress sets in.
Write.
Get into the flow.
Be interrupted by phone call.

In extremis I go out to coffee shops - I'm much more productive there!
When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
I wish I could say it was by sipping champagne in my mountaintop villa, but in fact I'm a bit of a jack of all trades, so I'm usually working. I babysit my gorgeous nieces, do Albanian to English interpreting, and work for online clients doing proofreading, editing, survey design and analysis.

I do find time for a lot of reading though, and I enjoy handicrafts like crochet. I also enjoy watching films, and I recently treated myself to a Cineworld Unlimited card :D
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Where to find K C Murdarasi online

Website: http://kcmurdarasi.com
Twitter: @kcmurdarasi
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/kcmurdarasi
Blog: http://kcmurdarasi.com/about

Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.co.uk/K-C-Murdarasi/e/B0071YOYG4/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1393881461&sr=8-2

Books

How to Get Published: A Brief Guide for When You Don't Know Where to Start by
Price: $1.20 USD. Words: 7,090. Language: English. Published: November 11, 2019 . Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Playwriting, Nonfiction » General reference » Questions & answers
This is not a foolproof guide to making publishers sit up and take note, and it doesn’t guarantee you a six-figure advance. But if you have a book, an idea for a book, and you’d like to try getting your work published, but you have no idea where to start – this little guide is for you.
Leda by
Price: $2.50 USD. Words: 29,890. Language: English. Published: February 1, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Religion, Fiction » Christian » Historical
When Albania plunges into the violent Chaos of 1997, Leda and her best friend Suela find themselves on the run together. In the wild mountains between Albania and Greece, Leda will be forced to rely on her faith alone. Will her God come through when it matters most?
A New Year's Trio by
Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 7,660. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Short stories
A collection of three heart-warming stories about new beginnings, new romance, and New Year.
Running for Cover by
Price: Free! Words: 3,380. Language: British English. Published: July 24, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » General
Isla Petrie just wants to avoid the Olympics, and she'll go anywhere - even sleepy Haddleford - but unexpected adventure awaits her in this Derbyshire village.
Office Life (and Death) by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,330. Language: English. Published: June 9, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
(4.33 from 3 reviews)
Have you ever wondered... If your boss disappeared, would anyone notice? How do you know your organisation really exists? What's the company policy on screaming? Office Life (and Death), a collection of sharp, funny short stories for anyone who has ever worked in an office.

K C Murdarasi's tag cloud

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Smashwords book reviews by K C Murdarasi

  • How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months on Aug. 01, 2012

    The advice in this book, if followed closely, would probably lead to success in epublishing - I don't doubt that. However, it's really aimed at people who are prepared to write what the market demands rather than what they want, treating writing very much as a business venture. That's not me, and I expect it's not a lot of people, even if you do want to make money from your writing. My other main criticism is that the key marketing tool, the loyalty tranfer blog, sounds next to impossible to get right. Despite that, I have been trying to put some of his advice into practice, and the book did make me pull my socks up a bit more about marketing. If you're prepared to go all out, as John Locke did, then this will be invaluable. If not, for whatever reason, it's useful, but you might be better off reading something more conventional by Mark Coker.