Tag Archives: Writing Updates

All of my books can now be downloaded from my website for free…

It’s 10 months since I left the ‘gulag’ of full time employment and became a real person. I’m now enjoying life properly, as it’s meant to be lived, and feeling grateful every day for having retired. One decision I’ve made is to carry on writing, but to share my work for free. This gives meContinue reading “All of my books can now be downloaded from my website for free…”

Lots of Progress with my Cold War / New Cold War stories…

… it has been nearly a year since I revealed that I was now writing a series of fictional stories and articles with a Cold War theme… – although I have been quiet, a lot has been happening behind the scenes! This is the current status of my writing projects: The ‘Lissa Blackwood’ novels wereContinue reading “Lots of Progress with my Cold War / New Cold War stories…”

I’m writing again after a nice long break…

I started writing sci-fi short stories around 2009, and by 2017 had self-published two novels and an anthology. That had been enjoyable but hadn’t sold very well, so by 2019 I had decided to switch to writing Thrillers. Having reached the mid-point of a first draft for book 2 in my new ‘Lissa Blackwood’ seriesContinue reading “I’m writing again after a nice long break…”

I’ve just shared my latest update about my second “Lissa Blackwood” conspiracy thriller novel

from my original blog on 20/8/19: – take a look at https://youtu.be/Mpni7Ldni0c I’m very excited to be 15k words into the writing, with just circa 85k to go! I also reflect on whether I should self-publish this trilogy or seek an agent + Trad deal.

More progress on my 2nd ‘Lissa Blackwood’ conspiracy-thriller…

From my earlier blog on 9/6/19: I’m now ready to start writing the 2nd novel in my ‘Lissa Blackwood’ Conspiracy-Thriller series. The overall plot has been fully defined and now works within the 7-Step Story Structure. Over the past month I have really enjoyed defining the 5 increasingly significant attacks that Lissa Blackwood will haveContinue reading “More progress on my 2nd ‘Lissa Blackwood’ conspiracy-thriller…”

Change of style for showing inner thoughts in my writing…

‘PAIN’ – noun: that terrible feeling you get when you decide to abandon the method you were taught about 40 years ago for formatting inner voice in fiction! I’ve just made the choice to adopt one of the modern styles: no quote marks, italicised text with a tag. Heck – this means I’ve now gotContinue reading “Change of style for showing inner thoughts in my writing…”

First Alpha-reader feedback about “Evil Eye”…

I’m just getting the first feedback from my Alpha-readers about ‘Evil Eye’. One lady told me today that it is well written, fun and moves along at a good pace, with an obvious link for a Book 2, which she would also like to read – “You should feel proud of yourself,” she said –Continue reading “First Alpha-reader feedback about “Evil Eye”…”

I’ve now printed the first 4 alpha copies of ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’…

Back in August I announced that I had finished the first draft of ‘Evil Eye’, and like all writers I immediately started work on improving that copy. ‘Evil Eye’ is my third novel and I’m getting used to that process of polishing and embellishing my work, but this time around I was thrown by someContinue reading “I’ve now printed the first 4 alpha copies of ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’…”

Latest vlog about “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller”…

I’ve just shared a new vlog about ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’ on YouTube – take a look at https://youtu.be/JnADVherxXg In the vlog I talk about 2 large changes that I’m making to the story. Firstly I’m removing the references to Brexit – the plot of this book isn’t driven by that andContinue reading “Latest vlog about “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller”…”