Being an author is a bit like being in a war where you can’t quite see over the ridge ahead of you. Sometimes it feels like nothing is happening, other times it’s an adrenaline-fuelled mad rush with everything coming at you all at once. Fortunately no one is shooting at me, so that’s where the …
Sorrowline launch event!
The lovely people at New Writing North have got together with Andersen Press and Waterstones Newcastle to organise a terffic launch event on Tuesday 29th January! Not only will Sorrowline get the star treatment, we’ll also be toasting the launch of fellow Northern Writers Award winner Celia Bryce’s teen novel Anthem for Jackson Dawes (Bloomsbury, …
Week 3 Highlights
Is it that time again?? So what’s been the best bits about this week? Getting some lovely target-reader reviews from the Discovery Club reading group at Waterstones, Southampton. “I loved it from the first page.” – Zoe 11. Check out the Waterstones Bookseller reviews tab for more. And more reviews on the Love Reading 4 …
Week 2 Highlights
Week 2, and its been a busy one! Here are my highlights! Being named Book of the Week by Peter’s Books. Being on a Top Ten list! Guest-blogging on Swapit! Speaking of Swapit you can win a signed copy of Sorrowline as well as pick up 2500 Swapits! Details here! Confirming my first school visit! …
Week 1 Highlights
Now my countdown to publication has ended I thought I might try a countUP! Here are the highlights of my first week as a published author! Publication, obviously! Need I say more? Hearing that friends and family are reading Sorrowline. It’s been great to get this early feedback from such enthusiastic supporters. Getting my first …
Publication Day!!
After waiting 15 months the day finally came! PUBLICATION DAY!! With getting copies from Amazon early it was something of a vague date to celebrate, but it was still the official Publication Day and deserved marking in some way.We’d planned a family day in York, so by 9.30am we were settled in First Class on …
1 Day!
Tomorrow my first book, Sorrowline, is published. This is something I’ve dreamed about since I was a small boy, a day I sometimes thought might never come. It’s been a long wait, but it’s finally here. It’s a strange feeling, a mix of uncertainty and excitement, wondering what people will make of my book. I …