Category: Update
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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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A quick one today…
Just to give me a chance to use the logo. I’m pleased to say that Dead Letters made the longlist of this year’s Page Turner Awards. You can see the entry and comment on how good it is here. Okay, so maybe this news is a couple of weeks old now, but I can hardly…
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To blog or not to blog, that is the question.
It has been seven weeks since my last confession. I posted from Saint Malo in late July, enjoying a summer that was late to arrive. Now, we’re coming up to mid-September and the summer seems here to stay. Have I been lounging around all this time? Well… partly. As much as a personality like mine…
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Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside!
It’s holiday season, and you find me in Saint Malo, doing research for my future novel, Beach of Spies. This ‘research’ involves building sandcastles, going for a dip in the sea, eating a lot of ice cream, and generally trying to cope with two over-excited children. Not a lot of that will go in the…
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One month in – how are we looking?
WARNING: this post contains mild elements of self-congratulation, which may not be appropriate for readers with delicate sensibilities. Mostly, though, I’ll try to sum up how things have gone since Dead Letters was published a month ago, on 5th May, in a way that will hopefully be of interest to anyone interested in self-publishing. So,…
