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Writing Projects

Working from home? No change there then...

How is the writing going?

I have, of late, become a little distracted.  Over Christmas, I discovered I have prostate cancer and recently had my surgery cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak - this has somewhat affected my level of focus. But don't worry, prostate cancer is something you usually die with rather than from, so I'm in no imminent danger - it will get sorted when things return to normal.

Retreat to France

To finish the third novel

Some of you may have seen from Twitter and Facebook that I've gone to France for a month or so to finish the third instalment in the Shaun Young series. 

A press clipping for The Nor'easter

From the Norfolk Daily Times

This is the press clipping that is referred to at the beginning of The Nor'easter - if you click on the graphic it is easier to read.

Juggling the skillset balls

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Publication Day!

The Nor'easter has been published

I've published The Nor'easter as a paperback on Amazon UK and on Amazon USA.

The digital book can be purchased here on kindle, ibooks, nook, kobo, scribd, 24S, Thalia, Playster, bol, Angus & Robertson and Mondadori.

It's been a while folks but I hope that you all enjoy it -  please take a moment to rate or review it once you have finished it.

Many thanks

Tom






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A Nor'easter is blowing in...

... this Friday 26th October 2018

I'm so pleased to announce that I've finally finished The Nor'easter. My editor, Janet Laurence, returned her review of my 147,500 word first draft at the end of August and I completed the re-work at the end of September. I went through it again to clean and tighten, reducing the words from 142,00 t0 134,940. John Holland then performed a final proofread and here we are.

A High Five For Feedback

Can you spare five minutes?

First of all, a big thank you to everyone that left a review or rated The Pink Herring – I really appreciated the feedback. I’m lucky to have a very good average rating for the book (4.75 out of 5 stars) for the forty or so reviews I’ve received, but this represents less than 5% of the total books sold. It might not seem like much but the average on Amazon is just 1.5% per book sold. 

The Series Expands

What am I up to now?

With the second book in the series, The Nor'easter, safely in the hands of my editor, Janet Laurence, I have about four weeks before I receive her full assessment. I have picked up writing on the third book in the Shaun Young series, The Whistle Blower (if you click on the cover pages graphic above, a larger version appears - it's pleasing to see them lined up as a series)

Writing The Nor'easter

Welcome back!

Hello everyone - it's been a while since my last update, but thought it was worth breaking radio silence to let you know how things are going with the follow-up to The Pink Herring.

Competition Results

What competition?

Last month, I opened a competition to give away three copies of my book, The Pink Herring. It was a competition with a difference - the prize wasn't for the applicant, it was for them to give as a present for someone they thought would appreciate it.

A Free Festive Giveaway...

What's on offer?

As we head into the festive season and work on my second Shaun Young novel, The Nor'easter comes to a conclusion, I'd like to offer three people the opportunity of receiving a signed copy of my debut 5-star novel, The Pink Herring (reviews can be found here.)

The Pink Herring is more widely available

For the first three months, I published The Pink Herring exclusively through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited scheme. It remains available through Kindle as an ebook, but it has now been published as an ebook on...

Paris, Texas

Tonight, I watched a film I have seen countless times and every time I do, I think it is one of the finest films ever made.

6 Degrees of Separation - A True Story

Tom & Corrin meet for the
first time at the party - even
the Ray-Bans were a match

Are we really just six steps away?

There have been many reports that support the concept - science papers, Microsoft adding weight to it, not to mention a game called The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon where inebriated students try to link him to another actor through their co-stars in six steps or less.