Category: Update
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Writing Dead Letters
WARNING: this post contains mild spoilers. I won’t talk about the end of the book, but will say things that give away what happens in the first few chapters. So if, like me, you prefer to discover a book for yourself, save this one for later… I’ve mentioned a few times that it took me…
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Dead Letters released today in paperback and on Kindle
The day has finally come to release my second novel. You can find it on Amazon.co.uk here, or in your friendly (automated) local Amazon store. I say ‘finally’ because I’ve been waiting a long, long time for this day. Two reasons for this: firstly, this novel took a very long time to write. Fifteen years…
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Dead Letters is now available for pre-order!
It has been a nail-biting 24 hours, since I got the system message asking me to prove copyright for Dead Letters (or some unspecified thing in it that’s available on the internet). You find yourself asking ‘if I have to prove to Amazon that I actually wrote this thing over a period of years, how…
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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…
