Author Archives: M J Dees

About M J Dees

M J Dees lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil with his wife, daughter and two cats. He has written three novels, Living with Saci, The Astonishing Anniversaries of James and David, Part One, and When The Well Runs Dry. He is currently editing the fourth and writing the fifth. You can sign up for more information on his book launches at http://eepurl.com/cTnAD5 and receive a free copy of Living With Saci.

#95 Taco – Son of cricket

Posted on April 19, 2019

Modern taco bats and stumps This article was originally written for The Corridor of Uncertainty by myself and published on my original blog Our Man in Sao Paulo. It is still the most popular post on that site so I thought I might share … Continue reading →

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#94 Moving house (again)

Posted on April 17, 2019

As I write this, I am in the first phase of a house move, or rather flat move to be more accurate. For readers in the US a flat is an apartment and it is anything but flat. Phase one … Continue reading →

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#93 Not sweating the small stuff

Posted on March 24, 2019

At this stage of my writing career, I find that I am working full time in a job that doesn’t require me to do much writing but that nevertheless is very demanding. At the end of the day I come … Continue reading →

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#92 Creating large print editions

Posted on March 20, 2019

This week I have been mainly working on creating large print versions of my first four novels. For many independently published authors, the idea of producing large print versions never occurs to them. Even many traditional publishers do not bother … Continue reading →

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#91 Digging up old short stories

Posted on March 6, 2019

I decided to look back at the archives and dug up one of my old short stories. I hope you like it, let me know what you think: It Can’t be Done by M J Dees In a flat in … Continue reading →

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#90 Living with the headless mule

Posted on February 28, 2019

I have just typed the last words of the first draft of my fifth novel which I am tentatively calling LIVING WITH THE HEADLESS MULE. It is both a sequel and a prequel to my first novel LIVING WITH SACI … Continue reading →

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#89 Dealing with the mistakes of a book launch

Posted on January 31, 2019

I try to learn from every book launch. The lessons I learned from my previous book launches was that my books ad advertising had to be much better targeted in terms of keywords. To solve this I purchased KDP Rocket … Continue reading →

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