Tag: Chosen Child

  • Halfway…

    It’s eBook publication week for Chosen Child, and halfway through the blog tour we have a slight hiccup… Today’s post should be coming from Jane Isaac’s Caffeine’s not a Crime blog, however, at the end of last week her entire website disappeared into cyberspace. It’s back now but not yet functioning properly, so we agreed…

  • Chosen Child is published!

    I’m really pleased that my fourth book – another psychological thriller – is now available to download on kindle or other devices with an app. A few bits and pieces about the book: From the first word on the first page of the first draft, until today, it took almost exactly sixteen months to complete.…

  • The A B C of writing a book… (only slightly tongue-in-cheek)

    Please note, this is not a list of instructions – that needs no A B C. To write a book, ‘all’ you need to do, according to a cartoon doing the rounds on social media, is: Sit. Stay. Write. This is a list of other important bookish points. A is for…   Yes. Well. A is…

  • New book trailer!

    If you compare learning to make a book trailer to learning to ride your bike with no stabilisers, I’m at the stage of wobbling along, a parent (in my case, son 2) trotting beside me. For yards I can go it alone, then I lurch and need a steadying hand on the saddle. The fun…

  • Chosen Child – cover reveal

    One of the best things about self-publishing is, you get to choose your own cover image. Not that I’m unhappy about my publisher’s choice for my first two books; in fact, until recently, the cover of The Paradise Trees was my favourite. As far as cover images go, self-publishers have two options – a ready-made…