Last weekend (was that just three days ago?) I had a free book giveaway on Amazon for my time travel thriller, TimeSplash (that’s it in the left-hand column if you want to pick up a copy). As my previous post says, it was an exciting moment. A book that had spent almost two years [...]
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As you may know, I live out in the Boondocks, the sticks, Woop Woop (or pick your own quaint phrase meaning “the middle of nowhere”). The main industries here are fruit growing and wine making. They play country and western musak in the local supermarket and the churches outnumber the pubs about twenty to [...] (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) Over a hundred years from now, after a series of devastating biological wars, North America is struggling to hang on to even third-world status. A young mathematical prodigy called Menelaus Montrose grows up in what used to be Texas. He works at a [...] (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) When a book opens with our heroes running from a planet, having just been shot at while trying to smuggle a war criminal off world because they’re hard up and need the money, you know you are squarely in space opera land. And [...] A profound change has come upon me. No, it’s not the male menopause, although I’m long overdue for a red sports car and a dab of Rogaine. No, this change is based on the realisation that from this week onward, whatever I’m doing, wherever I am, I will never be without a book to [...] Courtesy of the very kind Marilee Brothers, I had the chance to blather about the three-ring circus we call publishing on her most excellent blog. If you’re interested in what I think about small publishers, self-publishing, and the Big Six, you should hop over there. If not, you should go there anyway as there [...] I came across a tweet today. It was from a complete stranger, about a book I’d never heard of. This is the full text: “Whassamatter with you guys? 127 minutes to go and the offer for a FREE Kindle copy of [Book Title] closes! Tick tock…” Reading between the characters (tweets are so short [...] |
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