Coming Soon: 'The Life Of My Stories'

 

Here it is. The Life Of My Stories. 
A brief memoir of my life with a loose emphasis on the people and events which inspired by stories and books.

Available soon from Amazon (paperback) and Kindle.   

Rejected. Again.

After writing for most of my adult life, publishing fourteen books, and receiving wonderful reader reviews from all over the world -- especially America -- I have once again been rejected by a New Zealand publisher. 

For some reason I have never been accepted by mainstream publishers in New Zealand who, unlike my readers, don't seem to see any value in genuine New Zealand fiction. The constant refrain is basically: 'You're a good writer, your book is wonderfully written, but we don't see any market in New Zealand for quality literature like this'. 

This time it's my new novel Twice Upon a Time There Lived (see previous post below) about which Bateman Books said (by way of polite rejection): "While your writing is descriptive and evocative, we feel this novel is too niche and literary for our list. It’s also hard to sell a novel about an obsessive love between cousins to a New Zealand audience." 

How do they know that?    

My new novel 'The Fable of Flitcroft Point' is now AVAILABLE

 

Yes. The Fable of Flitcroft Point will be available soon is available now in New Zealand paperback and internationally from Amazon and Kindle. 
Set in the distamt future, it's like nothing  else I've ever written. 

HERE IS THE COVER BLURB: 

 Early in the twenty-first century a series of viruses killed eighty percent of the world’s population. Famine loomed.

In New Zealand there was plenty of food but too few people to process it. The surviving city folk therefore fled to the countryside where they provided labour to the remaining farmers in return for a share of the food they helped produce. As a result the country’s towns and cities were abandoned.

Into this vacuum came the invading Vandiers, so numerous and wealthy they dominated the small Kiwiland population whose traditions, culture, religion and language they despised.

The Fable of Flitcroft Point is set in a typical Kiwiland village where, in 2177, the land-grabbing Vandier government has taken village land for its own purposes. The Kiwilanders, angry and frustrated, want their land back. But can their feeble protest succeed against the overwhelming power of central government?