Andy Rivers's Blog, page 6

Hammered!

News has reached me of an impending giveaway of the kindle version of my book 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' described in various quarters as 'classic', 'brilliant' and 'that bit's true isn't it?' you can't really afford to miss this for nowt can you?

Byker Books are five this year and have decided to give stuff away throughout to celebrate. They're starting with my debut novel. It's free to download to your Kindle from Thursday 23/5 through to Monday 27/5 - that's pretty good I reckon so tell your mates and get yourself a bargain.

See you later.

No More Heroes...

Steve Carney died this week. You probably haven't heard of him - he was a rock hard centre half at Newcastle United in the 80's, sadly he contracted pancreatic cancer and was taken far too early at only fifty-five years old.

Agent Ex?

Are literary agents a dying breed? The time was when a would-be author would finish typing up their opus, print it all out in the manner specified by the respective agency in the Artists and Writers Yearbook, parcel it up and then spend a mint on postage before crossing their fingers and hoping that this time it would be different. Inevitably the deep sigh of disappointment that accompanied your rejection slip (not letter - slip!) would be tempered by the fact that they may actually have read this one before rejecting it (a fiver says they hadn't!) and you MUST be getting closer.

The Magpie has landed!

Hello, and welcome to my online home.

I'll be using this part of the site to regale you with all things Rivers (that's me like!) but you can also peruse my books, check out what I'm working on at the minute, poke fun at the pics I've put up and leave comments about everything.

Going forward I'll stick an 'Archive' page up where you can view some of my past works (stories, articles etc.), share some of my favourite people with you in the form of a 'Links' page and hopefully get the bloody Twitter feed to work (In the meantime you can always follow me on @andy_rivs). Please let me know if any links don't work or *gasp* you spot typos and I'll sort them asap.

Ok, that's it from me for now but please tell your mates, pass the links on, check me out on Facebook and, if you've read them and liked them, review my books on Amazon.

Cheers

Andy