So my book, my new novel, my fourth book, Dear Magpies, has been out for a month. It was published as a paperback by SilverWood Books on 18th November - and, it seems, people are reading it. Amazing! I've been running [...]
Two weeks tomorrow, on Thursday 21st November at 6.30pm for 7pm, I am having a Book Launch for my new book Dear Magpies, at Winstones Books in Cheap Street, Sherborne, DT9 3PX. I will be giving a talk about my [...]
Creating a book and getting it out into the world is a little like having a baby - though it usually takes far longer. It grows more erratically and more slowly and its birth involves many people of different skills. [...]
Magpies are magnificent. Distinctive by their black and white plumage, they are intelligent and inquisitive - and more superstitions surround magpies than any other wild bird. The most common one is that it is unlucky to see a lone magpie but two [...]
My third book has been published this summer by Onwards and Upwards – a novel called The Lost Journey Homeward. It is a contemporary take on the parable of the Prodigal Son, though in my book the prodigal is a [...]
Authors must help their publishers to market their own books these days. We tend to target local booksellers to hold book launches, talks and signings in our own areas, where we know people and can spread the word or [...]
My new book 'The Lost Journey Homeward' has been well and truly launched - on Sunday 14th June. I decided to do this At Home - in my own garden in Dorset. My last two books had their launch parties [...]
Strange to think, now my new book is for sale, that soon people might be reading 'The Lost Journey Homeward', turning the pages and assessing whether they like the story and what they think about my friends, the characters. It's [...]
Just published: my novel “To the End of the Day” about a troubled friendship (published in hardback in summer 2011) is now available as an eBook in a Kindle Edition from Amazon. Price £4.50/$6.99. Here is the link:- http://goo.gl/wGPR4A But [...]
My novel “To the End of the Day” has recently appeared in Poland with the title: “U Kresu Dnia.” It was translated by Teresa Komlosz and published in paperback by Proszynski Media in Warsaw with a price tag of Cena [...]