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Book 3 in my Diesel-punk series now live!
That’s it, as of Saturday, the third book in my diesel-punk series is now finally live on all platforms. Bit of a last minute hitch with the uploads meant it was down to wire on a couple of sites, but its all sorted now and so far sales are good. Book 1 – Through Glass Darkly discounted to $0.99 to celebrate the publication of Book 3. Read more…
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Two down, one to go…
It can be strange going back to read, or edit your own books…, but ahead of the release of the third book in my diesel-punk series, A Shadow on the Sky, I’ve been doing exactly that. Read more…
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Writing Insights – Plotting: A Cat and Mouse analogy
I’m currently writing the third book in my Dieselpunk series, named after the first book ‘Through Glass Darkly’. This was a fun project I started after attending the Asylum Steampunk Festival in Lincoln @AsylumSteampunk, which was full of some fabulous people, with wonderful names, wearing amazing costumes along with some truly ingenious contraptions, from weapons and armour to hats, wings and mock scientific paraphernalia. Read more…
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Author inspirations – the characters of W. Somerset Maugham
I’m doing some research on 1930s China for the follow up to my ‘Flames of Time’ Archaeologic Adventure trilogy, and after browsing around one of my local bookshops I picked up a copy of W.Somerset Maugham’s ‘On a Chinese Screen’. Read more…
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Twelve Months and Two Thousand Miles – A writing year in review
At this time last year, I had just taken a few weeks off from my laptop, having written and published three books during 2017, as well as another couple of, as yet, unpublished short stories. Read more…