Category: Update
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Progress Report
As is becoming customary, I’d like to start this post with an apology. This is going to be a pretty boring, workmanlike post – mainly because there has been so much going on that if I get into too much detail about any of it, this post will become a novella. I want to honour…
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Cover art update (sort of). Have your say!
I finished the last post promising an update on the cover art for my upcoming novel, Dead Letters. A lot has happened since then but it’s true to say that I haven’t delivered on my promise. I’m here to put that right. Kind of. In short, I’m struggling with how to market Dead Letters, but I…
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But where is the essence of Murph?
For New Year I published an extract of my novel, Yesterday’s Shadow, and immediately distanced myself from it by pointing out that I wrote it over 15 years ago. What have I been doing since then? Mainly writing Dead Letters. I’ve been doing other things, too, like meeting my wife, moving to Geneva, changing job,…
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Yesterday’s Shadow
I’m not one for New Year’s eve. It always seems to be trying too hard. And it makes you stay at a party until midnight, rather than slipping off early to bed. So I’m going to keep this post short and share with you an extract from my 2007 novel, Yesterday’s Shadow. As I’ve been…
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3, 2, 1 and lift-off!
Wednesday 23rd November 2022 was a momentous date, don’t you agree? It marked the official launch event for Troubleshot. A few weeks after the book went live on Amazon, it was a good opportunity to give it a little boost. And it was great fun, too! If you ever publish a book, I highly recommend…
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Sell, sell, sell!
Yes, it’s the title of a David Gray album- and don’t knock him please, I still think his stuff up to White Ladder is great. You’ll be glad to hear that this blog isn’t about music. Instead, I’m going to talk a bit about book marketing- a subject about which I consider myself to have…
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The obligatory launch-day post
Okay, so Troubleshot launched yesterday, but I had a busy day, all right? I’m writing from a train to Lucerne, where I’ll be running a half-marathon. The photo for this post is Gruyères, which looks a lot nicer when not viewed from a little phone on a speeding train.I’m listening to Stephen Fretwell’s latest album…
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Blurb and pre-order update
The cover image for this blog post is a post-it note-ridden proof copy of Troubleshot. Not a great deal to say about this except that if you’re ever in a position to review a proof copy before publication, definitely do it! So many things jump out from the page that you would miss on screen,…
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Cover art update – and pre-order on Amazon!
About two hours after publishing my previous post, I received the first iteration of the cover design for Troubleshot. Well, technically, it had gone through several stages before that, as I developed a concept and wrote – and refined – a brief. It was important to get the cover right, as the saying’s not wrong:…
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My Amazon Tattoo
I finished the last blog promising an update on the cover art for Troubleshot. Well, it’s still a work in progress and I think on reflection it would be best to talk about it when I have a final image to share – hopefully not too far from now. So instead, I’m going to tell…
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