Sweet Nothings

Just a quick update on my new baby (not the human one) - it's now available to order in paperback from Amazon at the reasonably competitive price of £7.99. 'Why is it so much more expensive than the Kindle edition (yours for a bargain £1.99)?', I hear you cry. Well, because this is done via Amazon's new Kindle Direct Publishing paperback self-publishing facility, it costs a fair amount to print each individual copy ordered and I wanted to make at least a bit from royalties because I do have a family to feed. This paperback service is still in its beta stage too, which I fully intend to use an excuse should the format of the printed article be in any way defective. Sadly, this probably won't work as an excuse for the contents itself. In case you haven't heard (and with my legendary marketing and networking skills, how could you not have?), "Wrecking Crew" is a novel about a disparate group of people who are unfortunate enough to be passengers on...

As promised/threatened  here , my first* novel " Wrecking Crew " has just been released into the wild. Inevitably, my submissions to literary agents have not quite generated a game-changing buzz or triggered a ferocious bidding war. Still, I'd like to re-emphasize that my being forced to sail the self-publishing seas may not be because my work is entirely terrible, but could instead be due to its lack of marketability or resistance to being pigeonholed into a tried and trusted genre. I hereby invite you to be the judge. Behold the generic clipart cover! In fairness, I like words more than pictures. "Wrecking Crew" was inspired by a flight from Key West to Orlando at the beginning of November 2014, the transition between the first, relaxing phase of our honeymoon in the beautiful Florida Keys to several days of theme park-based craziness at Disney World. Because most people undertake this journey by car, and because Key West airport is adorably dinky, we...