My booky-wooks

In case there’s anyone alive who hasn’t heard me bang on about my books. Or you’ve been living in a cave in the Outer Hebrides for the past few years, here is a reprise. They are all available from AmazonUK and US, Waterstone’s online, fishpond, The Book Depository and, in the States, Barnes & Noble.

JM interviewed by Big Al for the Indie View! Well chuffed.

“Where did you get the idea from? I’m a flitter and sipper: I pick up a sound bite here, a picture there, a quote from what’s in the news, a bit of interesting history, a dollop of current science, a snippet from my own life. I like my writing to be a rich stew of

Shut the front door!

My first novel ‘Is death really necessary?’ (a surprisingly cheery ecothriller about the death of petrol-based transport and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis) is currently massively discounted down to £1.53on on Amazon UK.                                                 

Indie writers finally get help with publicity

I’m very excited to be a guineapig on a new scheme by Andy Farrell, which gives internet exposure to indie authors.  Here’s a link to the website: ascribeme.com. Go and see what you think. And, if you like it, why not offer yourself as a guineapig too? I suspect the more guineapigs Andy has the better

My Writing Process Blog Tour

I’ve been asked to take part in the My Writing Process Blog Tour, by Caroline Davies*. This is a sort of chain letter for writers who blog. We’re each given the same four questions to answer. Do we all do it the same way? Almost certainly not. There are those who plan meticulously before getting

Is death really necessary?

Nope – still not a philisophical treatise on immortality – or is it?? But the first chapter of The Opus which prompted me to begin this blog oh, so long ago. If all this is new to you (by which I mean me and the book, not life in general) you might, perchance, enjoy this snippet

This just in …

A super new review of ‘Is death really necessary’ by the excellent Ant of SFBooks is now available here : http://sfbook.com/is-death-really-necessary.htm

Kindling

Well, it’s taken me 3 days (off and on) but I’ve just succeeded (I think!) in uploading The Opus for use with Kindle readers. I shall now unwrap the wet towel from around my fevered brow (well, it was wet when I started – it seems to have steamed dry …) and reward myself with

Long time no …

Gosh it’s hard to find interesting things to say about oneself. Especially on a regular basis. This just in, however: Apparently Janek Schaefer used a copy of ‘Is death really necessary’ in his installation for the International Festival held here in Milton Keynes in July of this year. Sadly it didn’t get included in the

The dark side of the Moon

My winning story (as above) in The New Writer’s 2009 competition will be available from a purchase point on this webpage for a fiver from mid-July-ish. http://www.thenewwriter.com/subscribe.htm