Back To Work
Here in the Bay of Islands in the north of New Zealand, we’re having a fabulous summer. Hot, sunny days at the beach and time to relax. Unfortunately though, my relaxing days are over for the time being. Today I’m back to work after three weeks off, and my top priority is getting the first episode of the Black Sun series out there. The manuscript will go off for editing at the end of this week, the cover art is more or less done, so providing there are no unforeseen delays it should be available by mid-February at the latest.
Meanwhile my most recent published novel, The Flyer has started to sell as an ebook, though there are no reader reviews yet on Amazon, Kobo or anywhere else I’ve seen. The revised edition of The Snow Falcon is also selling, but no reviews there yet either. Both these books are essentially love stories, though they are each also more than that. They’re very different from the upcoming Black Sun series, but I’m hoping that The Flyer will be a success because I’d like to write a sequel. I am particularly proud of that novel. Writing it involved a lot of research, along with two years of writing numerous drafts.
Somebody commented that The Flyer is reminiscent of the TV series Downton Abbey in some ways, which I suppose is true, though I finished The Flyer five years ago, long before DA hit the screen. If you are reading this and you buy the book (print version is a couple of weeks away, available on Amazon – I had to change something in the text layout when I received the first proof) then I hope you’ll get in touch and let me know your thoughts. The same goes for the revised version of The Snow Falcon. Please also post reviews on the various sites, including Goodreads if you use it, and tell your friends on Facebook. Word of mouth is the only way for an author to get their books known, if not backed by a big publisher, which I am not. We need all the help we can get, and I certainly appreciate it.
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