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Not really, but I will explain. Sales of The Puzzle have not been great and this was concerning. This is my first full novel since Rewind and Trouble Cross were placed on Amazon in 2012, although there has been Once Upon A Week in 2019. There has also been the split out of…
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I thought of writing a post Sunday, tried to write it yesterday and but couldn’t finish until today. It might be the chronic fatigue I was diagnosed with in November. Or it might be it was just Monday Horribilis yesterday. Monday’s are universally the worst day of the week, but…
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Julie Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins (1964). It would not happen today. Not for a Disney family film. Just as I am unlikely to watch today’s Oscar winning films, so too was I never going to write a Booker Prize or Nobel winning piece of literature. The best…
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My new book is out, and I should be over the moon but I’m not. I don’t have that euphoric feeling that I see with other writers on Twitter when they have a book coming out. Why is that?
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I finished writing ‘The Puzzle’ in May 2021 and have been trying to find an agent or publisher since. Fifty rejections – or in the majority of cases just silences – later and I entered it in the Readers’ Favorite 2023 Competition for an entry price of $119. The results were out…
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It has been one of those nights. I actually went to bed late, 1am, and was still awake at 2 am when believe it or not someone rang my buzzer. It was only a couple of quick buzzes and it was not repeated so I didn’t answer. The deed was done though – no sleep for me. I have been…
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Yes, I acquired my 8th rejection of the new novel yesterday. In actual fact, this was the first agent I sent it out to on 23/5 but they had IT problems and never received it, so last week I sent it to them again. They turned it around quickly even though the agent I spoke too…
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