Category: Update
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The P.J. Murphy book tour comes to an end
Today (9th February) marks the end of the a few hectic weeks promoting Dead Letters. It was a virtual book tour, so I didn’t actually leave the house, but it’s all been happening online. I won it from the Page Turner Awards last year, and you can find more information here. I’m posting partly to…
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My audiobook adventure, the finale!
With this post, I end a series of three updates about my discoveries on the path to getting my second novel, Dead Letters, published as an audiobook. Yes, it’s finally happened: Dead Letters, narrated by the wonderful Jez Sands is available from Audible and Apple Books. Even if you’ve already read the book, I highly…
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All aboard for the P.J. Murphy book tour!
Tomorrow (22nd January) I set off on my first book tour. One small clarification; it’s a virtual book tour, so the only place I’ll actually be going is work, and maybe to the gym, but the thought is there. The book tour, organised by iRead Book Tours, was a prize from the Page Turner Awards,…
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What’s in store for 2024?
Last year caught up with me towards the end, and I spent the last days of December in a cocooned state when not travelling to visit friends and family. So please excuse my silence the past few weeks, and the fact that it’s already the 3rd January (gasp!) before I outline what’s in the pipeline.…
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Here we go for novel number 3!
Well, technically it’s number two, as for some reason I’m publishing my completed novels in reverse order, like a pop star trawling through his back catalogue. If you want to know the real reason, check out this blog post from a little while back. For now, let’s focus on the cover. It’s a bit different…
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My audiobook adventure, part 2
I finished the last post talking about the challenge of narrowing the 26 auditions I eventually received down to one. This task proved much easier than it might have been because the protagonist in Dead Letters is the narrator. This meant that I had a very specific idea of how he should sound. Looking at…
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A slight digression…
Apologies to those of you tuning in for the next instalment of my audiobook adventures – that will follow shortly. A quick blog post today to tell go back to the Page Turner Awards, for which Dead Letters was long listed. To be honest, I stopped following when it didn’t get shortlisted. I had intended…
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My audiobook adventure, part 1
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a few writing projects on the go at the moment. The two closest to fruition are the publication of Yesterday’s Shadow (dusting off a novel I finished before starting Dead Letters) and the production of an audiobook version of Dead Letters. I’ll talk more about Yesterday’s Shadow very soon – I’m…
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What a weekend (part 2) a.k.a. a shameful confession
Guess what? I didn’t do the Geneva 20km run this morning. Call me lazy, but having been kept up half the night by the wind, I decided that running for two hours in heavy rain and extremely gusty conditions wasn’t my idea of a fun Sunday morning. Maybe my younger self would have enjoyed it;…
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What a weekend! (Part 1)
I’m spending this weekend at the Geneva Writers’ Conference, attending workshops on pretty-much every aspect of writing and publishing. And I’m running the Geneva 20km. Because I can’t just do one thing at a time, apparently. The conference is taking place at Webster University, just out of town in a place called Bellevue, which doesn’t…
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