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I’m between books. I’m not completely done with Mr Tumnal, but I’ve not started something new. I think I want to write my In Your Own Words story I have brewing (which is every bit as weird and wonky as…
Continue readingFor many people, a statement like that might be a good enough signal to others to call the professionals in to sort me out. For me, though, it is normal. It’s as sure as sign as anything that another story…
Continue readingSomehow, I seem to have agreed to read from my debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, at a book reading event a the Oxfam Bookshop in Reading. I’ve never done a book reading before, and already I’m pretty nervous…
Continue readingSomehow, I seem to have agreed to read from my debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, at a book reading event a the Oxfam Bookshop in Reading. I’ve never done a book reading before, and already I’m pretty nervous…
Continue readingI finished going though my royalty figures for last year today. It means that 2012 was the first year that I learnt a three-figure sum from my writing. Admittedly it’s been a pretty low three-figure sum but hey, I’ve never…
Continue readingFollowing the launch of The End Of All Worlds in May this year Kevin Domenic of the Searching for Heroes book website was kind enough to interview me about my story, and, umm… me. That was back in June, and…
Continue readingThe End Of All Worlds has now been published for almost seven months – time I think to say something about how well its been selling. I’m really not sure how many I expected to sell (and how quickly) when…
Continue readingOkay, I admit it (and I’m probably going to damn myself to obliteration by saying it) but I’m beginning to get cautiously optimistic that The End Of All Worlds is starting to move forward on its own in sales. It’s…
Continue readingAfter yesterday’s ramblings about the small seeds of bigger stories, today I found my old writing notebooks with the early sketches of plotting and characters. It’s interesting to look back – especially having seen how The End Of All Worlds…
Continue readingSince receiving the latest version of The End Of All Worlds and my bravery of taking it into Cole’s Books, I’ve taken it up myself to read. It’s an odd experience reading back one’s own words. I’m used to it…
Continue readingJust after 10 o’clock this morning the revised edition of The End Of All Worlds plopped through the letterbox in its shiny new all colour cover. I still find it hard to believe that it was less than 24 hours…
Continue readingSo, The End Of All Worlds has been out in the world for 6 weeks now. Whilst sales have not rocketed to 4 figures (!!) they are nonetheless keeping themselves respectable. Earlier this month I did a free promotion for…
Continue readingTo celebrate one month in print, I have been interviewed by Kevin Domenic for the Searching For Heroes website. So if you want to find out a bit more about me, my life, my influences of course my debut novel,…
Continue readingThe 17 June is Þjóðhátíðardagurinn (Icelandic National Day) and celebrates the day in 1944 that The Republic of Iceland (Lýðveldið Ísland) was formed. The date of 17 June was chosen because it is the birthday of Jón Sigurðsson, a major…
Continue readingIn hindsight today’s free promotion on amazon was not the best planned foray into the world of free marketing. Thursdays are apparently a good day to do it, but Thursday’s is also usually band night and so I would have…
Continue readingMy debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, will be available for free from midnight to midnight PST on Thursday 7 June 2012. It has been a fantastic three weeks since I published the book, with sales averaging out at…
Continue readingI’ve started reading Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt. Ragnarok is the final war of the gods, or the end of the world. I use it as the title for the final part of my own novel, The End Of All Worlds….
Continue readingMy book has been published for two week’s now (one week as a paperback). I really didn’t know how many or how fast or slow it might sell. I think I may have become unhealthily obsessed with refreshing the KDP…
Continue readingI’ve always had that dream of receiving the first box of books delivered, hot off the press, and straight from the publishers, and imagined what it would feel like to open it up and suddenly have the books revealed inside….
Continue readingToday has not been my birthday; its not been an un-birthday; but it has been my book’s birthday. When I first visited Iceland in the summer of 2001 I fell in love with the landscape, the people, the history, the…
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