It came to me today that I must have published around a million words of fiction, with 11 full-length novels and 4 novellas behind me. I’ve certainly written more than a million, if you also include all the unpublished books (too many to count, one or two of them very long indeed). Of course, there’s …
I’ll be honest with you. As a writer, I generally only share good reviews. This is because I want everyone to love my books, and it hurts when someone doesn’t. Also, I want to sell as many copies of my books as possible, and sharing the not-so-good reviews isn’t really going to help with that. …
It’s not every day you have a book coming out in America. But, for me, it is today. My latest novel The White Feather Killer is officially released on the other side of the Pond. So what shall I do to celebrate? Something suitably American. I’m thinking donuts maybe. Or burger and fries. Maybe a …
I’m not saying I predicted it. But when I wrote my dystopian novel, Psychotopia we were in the midst of the campaign which saw Trump elected President of the United States (after audio of him admitting to sexually assaulting women was released) at the same time as Boris Johnson was putting massive lies on the …
I can write stories. I can’t make people read them. If I’m lucky, someone might publish them. All of a sudden there are books with my name on the cover. But I can’t make people buy my books. No more than I can stop other people pirating them. I can’t make supermarkets stock them. Or …
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