A short post about Royalties.

Wow, I have just received my annual sales payment from my publisher. It's nothing to get excited about, certainly not enough to retire on, but never mind. I get great satisfaction out of being paid for doing something that I really enjoy doing, (writing novels), and being paid for something that I did many months ago. I intend to market and promote my novels more in future, but the most important thing is to write the next one.

A blog about things.

It's time I wrote another blog. I should post photographs of my lovely holiday in France or update you with talk of my latest novel, but just for now I am going to ramble about stuff that is happening now. When my wife and I returned from France we decided that something in our lives just had to change, so our house is on the market, we have given notice to leave our jobs and we are looking to re locate in Somerset or Dorset. Such a dramatic change you might say, and you would be right, but there comes a time in your life when the humdrum ground hog existance becomes overwhelming and you realise that there are things that you want to see and to do. We are soon going to embark on an adventure that hopefully will turn out for the best. I am going to write the final novel in The Torc Trilogy and spend some time marketing my novels. This is what I want to do for the moment, but I will in the fullness of time I suspect have to look for a part time job, but all that is in the future and who can say what might happen. One just never knows!

Kindle price reduction

Great news.  At last I have managed to persuade my publisher to reduce the Kindle price of my book The Belgae Torc.  In the UK it will now be £2.99, with similar reductions in the US.
This is the first book in The Torc Trilogy.  The Gordian Knot, recently released, is the second part and is available from Amazon and to order from best selling bookshops.

Book Launch

The launch of my book The Gordian Knot was held at Whitstable Rugby Club on Saturday evening (2nd August). About 50 guests were invited and the evening went very well.

The table was full of research notes, edited manuscripts, advertising leaflets and hand written text that went to make up the final paperback.

Books piled up ready to sign

Both books in the Torc Trilogy, just one more left to write.
My speech notes can be seen on the left of the table.  The envelopes hold character profiles.  I raffled off two characters to help raise money for charity.  These characters will appear in the next book.

A transcript of an interview I did with Kimberly Eve.  It appeared on her blog; Kimberly Eve Musings of a Writer and also on Facebook.  It can be read on my website.

Artwork and ideas that went into creating the cover.  The Celtic or Trinity knot looks splendid against the black background of the book cover.

Some of my guests being bored by my speech!

Signing books.

Me 'dancing around' whilst speaking!

The Gordian Knot

My latest novel The Gordian Knot is now available from Amazon.com and co.uk.
It can also be found on sites such as Barnes and Noble etc or order from all good bookshops.

Happy reading everyone!

A significant date

Fantastic news, My novel 'The Gordian Knot' should be available from 11th July on Amazon.

Pop up Bookshop

My books have appeared on the shelf of Daisy White's Pop Up Booktique.
The Witness is on the  left hand shelf bottom left, (the picture of the girl on the cover), and The Belgae Torc is on the right hand display, second shelf, fourth book in.  I think this may have been a display from Ardingly, East Sussex.
My new book, due to be released later this month is called The Gordian Knot and is the second book in The Torc Trilogy.