Matt Drabble's Blog, page 3
March 23, 2013
Agent serach
My search for a literary agent is going really well, I almost have enough rejections letters now to wallpaper my toilet!
16,000 downloads for only my third attempt at writing a novel. Coming from an amatuer/unknown author and hailing from a non-literary educational background. Still isn't potential enough to make anyone interested, not sure what will.
16,000 downloads for only my third attempt at writing a novel. Coming from an amatuer/unknown author and hailing from a non-literary educational background. Still isn't potential enough to make anyone interested, not sure what will.
March 20, 2013
"Gated" promtional figures
Huge thanks to everyone who took the time to download "Gated" during free promotion. Over 5 day giveaway final figure was 9656 giving an overall sales and free total since its launch in Dec 2012 of 15,746 :)
March 8, 2013
March 6, 2013
New novel "Asylum"
My new novel "Asylum" is now available, but it will be free on Amazon on 03/08/2013 to the 03/10/2013.
The new novel from the author of the UK Amazon Horror Chart #4 hit “Gated”
Blackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker.
Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author’s career. Sidelined through a car crash’s injuries, he finds himself forced through governmental austerity measures having to take a custodians position at a private mental health hospital. A writer with undoubted talent, but an author without a story.
He begins his new job deep in depression and drowning under waves of his lost dreams. On his first night he meets Jimmy, his elderly supervisor who has spent most of his life within the hospital walls. Jimmy is nearing retirement age and desperate to rest his weary bones. Jimmy offers Martin a way out for both of them, access to the background histories and stories of the hospital’s patients. A collection of 13 tales from the darkly disturbed minds of the residents of Blackwater Heights.
As the long night unwinds, Martin finds himself deeply troubled as the tales unfold before him and threaten to drag him down into their insanity.
The new novel from the author of the UK Amazon Horror Chart #4 hit “Gated”
Blackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker.
Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author’s career. Sidelined through a car crash’s injuries, he finds himself forced through governmental austerity measures having to take a custodians position at a private mental health hospital. A writer with undoubted talent, but an author without a story.
He begins his new job deep in depression and drowning under waves of his lost dreams. On his first night he meets Jimmy, his elderly supervisor who has spent most of his life within the hospital walls. Jimmy is nearing retirement age and desperate to rest his weary bones. Jimmy offers Martin a way out for both of them, access to the background histories and stories of the hospital’s patients. A collection of 13 tales from the darkly disturbed minds of the residents of Blackwater Heights.
As the long night unwinds, Martin finds himself deeply troubled as the tales unfold before him and threaten to drag him down into their insanity.
March 1, 2013
recommended proof reader
Have just used a guy called Dave Hurlow to work on my latest novel. Would recommend him to anyone looking for a skilled and reasonable service - davehurlow@gmail.com
updates
Just got "Asylum" back from proofers, got to make changes and alterations, getting clsoe to launching.
Just reached 40,000 words on "The Montague Portrait" going well.
Just reached 40,000 words on "The Montague Portrait" going well.
February 22, 2013
short story acceptance
Just had a short story accepted for publication by Sirens Call Publications. Only trouble now is that I have to write another for my own anthology that was coming out soon!
February 20, 2013
new novel
"Family Portrait" is now renamed "The Montague Portrait". Just passed 27,000 words, closing in on about 1/3 of the way in and shaping up nicely.
My 4th novel "Asylum" is currently out for proofing, so hope to launch it soon.
My 4th novel "Asylum" is currently out for proofing, so hope to launch it soon.
February 5, 2013
"Family Portrait" new novel
Just started my 5th novel this week. A horror/thriller prov called "Family Portrait"
Travis Parker used to be an insurance investigator, but he has spent the last two years inside of a bottle carrying the grief of the death of his wife. Her legacy was an art gallery that is going under, until Travis is forced out of a self-imposed retirement by a mysterious benefactor. He is soon put on the trail of a valuable painting that was supposedly destroyed in a fire years ago but now appears to have resurfaced with a dark trail of death in its wake.
He is about to discover that some secrets should stay buried, and that art appreciation can be murder.
Travis Parker used to be an insurance investigator, but he has spent the last two years inside of a bottle carrying the grief of the death of his wife. Her legacy was an art gallery that is going under, until Travis is forced out of a self-imposed retirement by a mysterious benefactor. He is soon put on the trail of a valuable painting that was supposedly destroyed in a fire years ago but now appears to have resurfaced with a dark trail of death in its wake.
He is about to discover that some secrets should stay buried, and that art appreciation can be murder.
February 1, 2013
"Gated" update
"Gated" the #2 Amazon UK Horror/Thriller chart hit, full length ebook novel now available for 97p.
www.amazon.co.uk/Gatedebook/dp/B00AHW...
24 reviews 4.3 star average
www.amazon.co.uk/Gatedebook/dp/B00AHW...
24 reviews 4.3 star average
