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MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – SECOND OUTING

STOPPING POWER: CONTACT releases today so let’s get the shameless link out of the way. mybook.to/stoppingpower2 This is the second episode in the STOPPING POWER series and it’s already been well received by fans with advanced copies, so that’s a relief. I wait to see how other people take to it. With a punishing release […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – DEBACLE

This weeks it’s still all about STOPPING POWER and the impending release of the second episode in the series on Friday 9th Sept. I’m just about to finish the final revision run through of episode 7 and then I’ll be putting 5, 6 and 7 through Prowritingaid before a final read, then it will be […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – STOP

This week has all been about getting the next set of episodes ready for release. WORK IN PROGRESS Stopping Power – Agent Carrie Harris Undead Thriller – The edited version of episodes 2 to 4 have come back and after about three hours of making changes suggested by the editor, plus accepting the grammar and […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – I’M BACK

It may have only been a short couple of weeks, very short from my current perspective, but I’m back and have been working away for the last week. I managed not to get COVID before the holiday, despite my nagging fear, and the journey through the airports, both to and from Spain, were a breeze, […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – BURNING

Goodness me, what a week! For those of you in the UK you’ll appreciate how hot it’s been, and it’s only just cooling down. I know all around the world it regularly gets hotter than 40C, but here we’re just not geared up for it. Not only don’t we have air conditioning at home, so […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – CHOPPER

I finally did a thing! Last weekend I had my first ever flight in a helicopter and I took the controls for over fifteen minutes. That sounds quite grand, but what it actually involved was doing my best to keep the thing pointed in the right direction and not spinning around as my instructor corrected […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – STACKED

EVENTS I’m thinking about cancelling my appearance at Marlborough next Saturday as COVID cases are rising in the UK and it would be the worst time to catch it again as it would put my long awaited holiday in jeopardy. Everyone at the office for my day job are testing daily, and so are our […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – INTRIGUE

EVENTS Hungerford was another success! I didn’t quite hit the same heights as Devizes the week before, but it was well above average. OPERATION DAWN WOLF sold well, as did the short story sets, nearly hitting the twenty mark. This means I won’t discard this event when I come to book for 2023 next month. […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – PLAY ANOTHER RECORD

EVENTS Last week saw my first event in Devizes, a classically English town in Wiltshire. The corn exchange, where the event was held, was a large, light and airy room and the weather had calmed down from the crazy temperatures it had reached the days before. I’d arrived pretty early and people started coming in […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – IT AIN’T ‘ALF HOT

It’s edging 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) here in the south of the UK at the moment, but for the most part I’m stuck in a windowless air conditioned office, which is both a good and bad thing I guess. When I have gone outside it’s like stepping off the plane in Spain, something I […]