One hundred independent bookshops in the UK have ganged together in the hope of increasing their buying power to compete with the largest sellers. I appreciate that those readers in the US will feel this is the most useless story in the history of ever, but I ask you spend a couple more minutes with …
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This is the thing: I’m thinking of offering you 25% off my eBooks. Here’s the details: first, it takes a long time to get books ready for marketing on platforms like Amazon Kindle but I am sitting on novels that won’t see the light of day for at least another year – if not more. …
The Guardian newspaper had a wonderful roundup of traditionally published crime novels, so I thought I’d share it with you. Buy from any source you think is best; not for me to say. Fill your boots (but not if you’re only after a freebie).
I know it’s late to mention, but I can’t help myself: here are some of the words of 2017. The only reason I reach back a month or two is because of the resonance with what’s been going on in 2018 too. The doublethink of “inappropriate” makes sexual molestation and rape sound like a minor …
As most of the Western world has noticed by now, there’s a book been released about the presidency of one Donald Trump – called Fire and Fury. Those on the right are aghast that free speech in America means lefties can publish alleged truths about righties. Those on the left consumed the text to reaffirm …
Several months later than I envisaged, The Getaway is finally going live on Amazon on Feb 12, 2018. Thank you to those newsletter subscribers who took advantage of my pre-release offer and thanks to everyone else who buys the book in the future. I can say without any fear of contradiction there is blood, sweat …
Far be it from me to write anything about Brexit but a major publisher has pointed out that post-Brexit (I shudder just typing the phrase), the UK will no longer have the same rights over the English language as it did before the UK voted to stab itself in the eye repeatedly until dead. How …
I don’t want to spread fear and panic across the Internet – and I surely won’t – but hot news from the UK’s Arts Council is that sales of literary fiction are down. The reason? People prefer Candy Crush. Seriously. Literary fiction is difficult and costly and people prefer to play cheaper games on their …
Another year may have started but at the tail of end of 2017, we received another article on the lack of diversity in publishing – this time focused on the UK. I mention this because I would like to see greater diversity in diversity articles. They are all the same: statistics showing that white middle-class …
I purposefully did not post towards the end of December 2017 because I figured people had better things to do with their time than read my letters from the dark side: like eating to excess, opening presents, watching a large amount of TV. Oh and reading, of course. Well, now we are the other side …
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