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 …
40 Days!
It’s getting close now! Really close! Just 40 Earth days till the 3rd of January and the publication of Sorrowline. But the truth is it’s been published already! On the 13th of November, somewhere in a factory unit in Croydon the presses rolled on the first edition of Sorrowline. Right now I imagine there are …
The Next Big Thing!
So what’s all this Next Big Thing chatter in writer’s circles on Twitter? I wasn’t sure until I was tagged not once but twice! The idea, it turns out, is simple. Its a way to discover new writers, and find out a bit about what they’re up to. In return for being tagged I’ve got …
60 Days!
60 days isn’t long, is it? Less than two months till Sorrowline is out there! A lot has happened in the last few weeks. First up I’ve just signed off on the last round of copy edits to the Sorrowline text, so its finally done. Its a odd feeling, having stepped away from it after …