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Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED!
It's out! Head over to http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I214QJU and form an orderly queue :)See the new releases thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Bought it, Tim - also mentioned it elsewhere! Hope it flies away!
People are lining up just to read Socko's First Day!
Flick was starting to feel a little left out... ;)
full size pic is on my Pinterest page: http://www.pinterest.com/timarnot/
Yesterday I added a new character in the edit/rewrite.Today I killed him off.
Bwahahahaha!
A little teasy-weasy for HUNTED:"You should know by now that the world is run by a bunch of morons and arseholes, but that’s no excuse to go around shooting them. Dammit, Jessica, it’s a good thing you missed anything vital, or you might have started world war four, or five, or whatever the hell number they're up to!"
- Alexander I, King of New Britain.
Coming soon...
You said that about Wanted... for nearly a year! :)
A wonderful new 5 star review for WANTED has appeared on Amazon:"I really enjoyed reading this book. It had me hooked and wanting more. The storyline is gripping and the characters well developed. You are immediately drawn to the main character of the book, Flick Carter, and you will definitely be waiting to buy the next in the series."
:D
We are... we are! :)
Just got back from the opticians (have you seen the price of glasses? nor me - that's why I need some!)Apparently I'm blond.
No probs. I's been one of those "run off my feet" days, or I'd have got around to mentioning it earlier. Should be wibbling around FB and twitter too by now. :)
I'm spreading the word about it as well, on my fb wall the discussion has moved to elephants....
Those darn elephants get everywhere! Oh look, here they are...
Bit flat though...
well you cannot have everythingIt's a thread which still has its own curtains, nice roses and a vague farmyard smell due to the elephants
I'm just trying to process the thought of an elephant farm.
You have to process it slowly, but somewhere where you've got plenty of room
I think I'll go to the Phoenix Park then.
They do tend to follow me round rather. And the Zoo is in the Park as well.
It's a beggar when the elephants start to sneak up on you
They are surprisingly good at sneaking for such large animals.
comes from nesting in rhubarb trees you know
It's a very untidy nest, elephants are obviously related to rooks
I bow to your superior knowledge.
Does that make it a parliament of elephants now then? And a herd of rooks?
Well a parliament of elephants could only be an improvement!
But should a motion be tabled, the table may need bracing
So will the benches!
Not to mention the lavatories and sewage system.
Could be good for the roses though, if not for the nose.
Sold my first Socko book downunder today - on iBooks! No idea where that came from - it was completely out of the blue. Rootastic none the less! :D(does Kanga dance on ceiling)
Strewth, fair dinkum, you little ripper, tinnies, shrimps, barbies etc etc
Let's not go overboard - it's only 35p, you know ;)
& god alone know when I'll actually see it!
Oi Tim, how you getting on with Hunted. Just read First Day again today. Very good.Now gerramoovon!
I'm about 6k off the end of Hunted (2nd draft, with big rewrites) - around 94000 words total. Then there will be a continuity pass to see how it holds together, and after that it'll go out to betas.I'm not going to give a timescale, cos I've been notoriously bad at hitting deadlines this past year - so much crap just gets in the way of writing! I think I need staff...
Book 3 is getting a move on though (current working title is "Defeated" but it changes regularly!) Socko plays a major part in that - he's a POV character. It follows straight on from the end of Hunted, so the development has been going on in parallel.
In theory I've got no other work on after this month till at least the end of June (bad news for the financials), which should give me a good run at it. Unless I end up stacking shelves in Tescos, that is!
May 1st. it's Choosing Day! Happy Choosing everybody! ;)And may the odds be ever...
oh wait, wrong movie!
Hurrah! Second draft finally finished :D 83,000 words. Which is only 7000 words shorter than the first draft, despite hacking out a 30,000 word sub-plot!Gonna take a day or two away from it before I give it a read through, then i'll be looking for beta readers. ;)
Yay! About time. Again!
:-)Got to think about the blurb now too, and setting up the GR book page...
92,500 words, hot off the printer! :-)
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Book 3 will be the red one.
(I've got a tentative title - Socko's First Fire. I think you might guess what it's about. But I'm not going to start on that till I've finished the editing on Hunted (going less well than I would have liked - big chunks being rewritten, new sections to be added...)