by admin | Nov 13, 2021 | My journey
I’ve been getting some great feedback about ‘The Dark Place’, and had over 7,500 people download it in 3 days when I ran a recent free promotion, but the day-to-day paid sales haven’t been great. My editors and some professional reviewers...
by admin | Oct 28, 2021 | Muses
A grim day, that many a family will be familiar with. The death of a much-loved pet. My son and my youngest daughter left the house early this morning (at the time of writing) to find Mikey, our black and white cat, prostrate on the street by the front gate. I’ll take...
by admin | Oct 13, 2021 | Muses
I have a strong – some might say, ‘concerning’ – interest in WW2. When I was about twenty years old (many, many moons ago!) I attempted to write a local history book about the area I lived in (Hillingdon Borough, London) during the war. We had...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Writing fiction
This is another question that I am asked often. For other authors, the answer could be anything from a few weeks, to several months, a few years, or even a decade. It depends on many factors, naturally. For me, having finished three books now, it’s ranged from just...
by admin | Sep 3, 2021 | Muses
I get asked this all the time as, I am quite certain, does every other author of fiction. On the one hand, I find this quite strange; everybody is making up stories all the time, aren’t they? Doesn’t your mind wander? Don’t you dream? But then, I suppose,...
by admin | May 15, 2021 | Books
I recently added a post about my forthcoming book, ‘The Dark Place’ that explained what it is about, the characters, and what inspired me to write it. You can read that blog here. The book is a historical suspense thriller set in Spain in 1970 and...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Books
I’ve got a new book coming out called, ‘The Dark Place’. I think it’s my best work so far, but then I am rather biased. I’d love to hear from you if it sounds appealing to you. The teaser/hooks I’m using is: “They escaped justice in 1945, but vengeance has found...
by admin | May 1, 2020 | My journey
I thought it might be interesting to some of you, to show my thought process for creating the cover for my upcoming book “Den Of Snakes” which is currently on pre-order on Amazon (just search for the title to find it). As a self-published author with...
by admin | Mar 22, 2020 | Muses
James Patterson once said that for authors; ‘Sometimes it helps to be a little bit schizophrenic’. It was comforting to me to hear him say this and to also hear other authors talk about the ‘crazy voices in their heads,’ as it goes some way to explaining why one of my...
by admin | Aug 31, 2017 | Social media
I am a social media whore. Always have been. Yet I had held off adding an Instagram account until now for one simple reason; I hadn’t decided how to make specific use of it. Instagram, just like every other social media platform, has certain strengths, but what...
