Hi all,
I am back from my hols (Nerja, Spain...warm sun, cold sea) with what (for me) passes for a tan. I am straight back into the whole book-marketing thing, and I am seeking local knowledge from anyone who lives in Oxfordshire or surrounding counties...
I am starting the process of creating a short film, maybe 15-45 seconds long, as a trailer for "Spiral; The Finding." I am looking for two particular locations, and wonder if anyone knows any places that are like this?
Location 1: a bleak, windswept, hilly landscape with a body of water in or near it.
Location: 2 an underground corridor/tunnel with stone walls...the older the better.
Obviously these would need to be places where they are happy to have people film royalty-free.
If anyone knows, do drop me a line, I really appreciate it :)
Thursday 29 May 2014
Tuesday 6 May 2014
Hello again peeps,
Another day, another dollar...pound, that is, on this side of the Atlantic. My debut novel Spiral;The Finding is selling on Amazon Kindle !!!! Ok, I'm not a millionaire yet, but the fact remains that I put three years of my (and my son's) life into this book, and to see it actually being purchased, something I never thought would happen, is a real boost. Thanks to Ankit Parekh for another five star review.
I'm starting to get my game head on with the sequel to Spiral now. I started it a while back, and then just left it, in the face of everything else going on (another novel, various poetry, plays and other joys). Now, I'm picking it up again, with the MacBain sisters, getting back inside their skins again the way I had to do for the first time back in 2011. It's easier this time; I feel I know the characters so well. But it's also more difficult in the sense that I'm having to revisit characters who have grown and changed, not just in my own mind with the passage of time, but with the events that befell them in the first book; anyone who has read it will know you cannot witness what these girls have and come out the other side of it unscathed. The cracks in their relationship that started to appear in the first book are widening in the second, as survival becomes even harder for them, and life even more fraught with difficulty. But they still manage to pull together; even while pulling apart; as they leave the island of their childhood and forge their way forward into a strange world they have never seen, in search of a new life....haunted by old foes.
I'm pretty passionate about this, as you can tell, so I'm hoping this next book will all fall out of my head in the space of a few months like the first one did...and not take two years, like my unaffiliated novel, ahem....
Watch this space for regular update, not to mention rants ! Cheers for reading :)
Another day, another dollar...pound, that is, on this side of the Atlantic. My debut novel Spiral;The Finding is selling on Amazon Kindle !!!! Ok, I'm not a millionaire yet, but the fact remains that I put three years of my (and my son's) life into this book, and to see it actually being purchased, something I never thought would happen, is a real boost. Thanks to Ankit Parekh for another five star review.
I'm starting to get my game head on with the sequel to Spiral now. I started it a while back, and then just left it, in the face of everything else going on (another novel, various poetry, plays and other joys). Now, I'm picking it up again, with the MacBain sisters, getting back inside their skins again the way I had to do for the first time back in 2011. It's easier this time; I feel I know the characters so well. But it's also more difficult in the sense that I'm having to revisit characters who have grown and changed, not just in my own mind with the passage of time, but with the events that befell them in the first book; anyone who has read it will know you cannot witness what these girls have and come out the other side of it unscathed. The cracks in their relationship that started to appear in the first book are widening in the second, as survival becomes even harder for them, and life even more fraught with difficulty. But they still manage to pull together; even while pulling apart; as they leave the island of their childhood and forge their way forward into a strange world they have never seen, in search of a new life....haunted by old foes.
I'm pretty passionate about this, as you can tell, so I'm hoping this next book will all fall out of my head in the space of a few months like the first one did...and not take two years, like my unaffiliated novel, ahem....
Watch this space for regular update, not to mention rants ! Cheers for reading :)
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