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The Afflicted - Released 2013
The AfflictedHello all readers. If you have read or intend to read my new book "The Afflicted" then thank you very much, I hope you really enjoy it. It was a long road to get my novel published, and as I am sure every other author on Goodreads will agree, it hasn't been easy.
The idea for the book actually came to me when I was helping my children with a little homework one weekend. They had been asked to write a short story given a limited list of characters, items and places they had to include. Well as any parent will have experienced at some point, the pair of them decided that the task was utterly impossible. I chided them and boasted that anyway could do and to my surprise they called my bluff.
Now wishing to save face I had to demonstrate that I could write a short story from a number of totally unrelated character, items and places, I also had to do within the same allotted time frame they were bound by.
Nevertheless I completed the task, and it was from that moment that I was bitten by the writing bug and decided to turn my simple short story into a novel. A little under three years later, several more grey hairs, multiple rejections and numerous sleepless nights I finally found a backer for my book. After that the rest is history, I did a lot of work with Mr Kevin David and his amazing staff at Arrow Gate Publishing and "The Afflicted" was born.
Now I sit by computer patiently checking the reviews and comments from the readers who have kindly chosen my book and so far I have been very pleasantly surprised. If you haven't already had a look then please check it out at http://arrowgatepublishing.com/home/.
The idea for the book actually came to me when I was helping my children with a little homework one weekend. They had been asked to write a short story given a limited list of characters, items and places they had to include. Well as any parent will have experienced at some point, the pair of them decided that the task was utterly impossible. I chided them and boasted that anyway could do and to my surprise they called my bluff.
Now wishing to save face I had to demonstrate that I could write a short story from a number of totally unrelated character, items and places, I also had to do within the same allotted time frame they were bound by.
Nevertheless I completed the task, and it was from that moment that I was bitten by the writing bug and decided to turn my simple short story into a novel. A little under three years later, several more grey hairs, multiple rejections and numerous sleepless nights I finally found a backer for my book. After that the rest is history, I did a lot of work with Mr Kevin David and his amazing staff at Arrow Gate Publishing and "The Afflicted" was born.
Now I sit by computer patiently checking the reviews and comments from the readers who have kindly chosen my book and so far I have been very pleasantly surprised. If you haven't already had a look then please check it out at http://arrowgatepublishing.com/home/.
