Today the digital first publisher Canelo are reissuing the first five Silas Quinn novels as affordable ebooks. The first in the series is Summon Up the Blood, which is 99p on amazon. Buy it now, as they say in the bookselling business. To whet your appetite here’s a short trailer I made. I will be …
I definitely heard him say “You must obey the monkeys”.
It’s a weird time to be publishing a book. But then again, it’s a weird time to be doing anything. Anyhow, that’s what’s happening today for me. My new Silas Quinn novel, The Music Box Enigma, is published. Bookshops are closed. Libraries are closed. There are no book festivals. No author talks at local events. …
I’ve been messing around with Moho animation software. Music is by my son, Luke. Check out his soundcloud page obey the monkeys from Roger Morris on Vimeo.
I think boxes are a great ingredient for a mystery story. They invite the reader to speculate what’s inside, and if you can delay revealing that for as long as possible then you build up the suspense and intrigue. I suspect that quite a few of my previous novels have featured boxes, or trunks, or …