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Sometimes good news comes from trees. Or is it in threes? Or on buses? Who knows! Anyway, I was thrilled to hear that Sorrowline had made it onto the Brandford Boase Award long-list, a prize for début writers and their editors which recognises excellence in writing and in publishing. The Award is made annually to …
Now that the inconvenient nuisance of Christmas and New Year have been bashed about the head and put out of its misery we can look forward to the publication if Timesmith on March 6th! It’s not long! 50 days! That’s all! I know some of you are too impatient to wait that long so I’ve …
2013 was my first year as a proper published author, and what a strange, exciting, terrifying, anxious, fun year it’s been! I think Charles Dickens was onto something with his opening line from A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, …
Hot on the heals of the German edition of Sorrowline comes the Thailand publication by Class Act Publishing!
Yes, it still feels like a long way away but I started counting down to Sorrowline 100 days before publication and the time flew by! So here we go again – 100 days to go till Timesmith is out! All the heavy lifting has already been done, the book is written, edited and copy checked. …
This post is the first in an occasional series on the research and inspiration for some of the characters in Sorrowline and Timemith. I wanted a lot of the things in my stories to feel real, as if they might have once existed, and I found inspiration in many myths, legends and folk tales. So …
I’m very excited to be published in another language! Today Jack Morrow und das Grab der Zeit hits the shops in Germany!
If you’d like to know more about my first book, Sorrowline, you can read an extract here. Alternatively I can read it for you! Here’s a short video of me doing just that with the prologue from Sorrowline. Chapter one will follow some time in the next few weeks. Hope you like it!
Not only is Sorrowline being published in the UK, it’ll be out in Germany next month and Thailand soon after. So I’m delighted to be able to share the Thai variant cover with you! It’s by Thai artist Gratuaidong and even features a nod to my Northern Promise Award! I’m sure New Writing North will like …