On a writer being suffering the indifference or even the scorn and contempt of the publishing establishment...

I found this and I like it.

Another FREE Kindle download

As a promotion I have made The Boltons of The Little Boltons available as a FREE download from Kindle here. Feel free to share this offer from 7.00 pm on Wednesday 14 May to 7.00 pm on Monday 18 May (NZT). 

'Underneath The Arclight' now available.

My new novel, Underneath The Arclight, is finished and now available on my website as well as at Amazon and Kindle. I'll be emailing my readers within the next few days with a special introductory price offer.  

A change of title

After a lot of thought -- and the pressure of impending publication -- I have decided to change the name of my new novel to Underneath The Arclight for reasons which will become obvious when you read it. 

Writing is a lonely life...

I love this quote from Ernest Miller Hemingway on receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954: 'Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.' 

FREE Kindle download

As a promotion I have made To The White Gate available as a FREE download from Kindle here. Feel free to share this offer which will end at 7.00 pm on Friday 8 May. 

My new novel almost ready to go.

I started it at the end of September 2014, worked on it all over summer, and now I'm pleased to say that my new novel is finished. Now comes the boring bit. I'll submit it to a couple of friendly publishers but most likely I'll publish it myself as which means getting a cover designed - my son Steve will probably do that - and getting the blurb written for the back. Then I'll have to start costing and formatting for local, Amazon and Kindle publishing. A slow and painstaking job.

It's lightweight easy-to-read humorous literature based on a short story I wrote a few years ago called The Silverbeet Patch which was published as part of the Nana's Special Day and other stories collection. 

It should ready for launch and sale by the end of April/early May 2015 at which time I'll e-mail the news to my regular readers with a special introductory discount offer. Email me if you'd like to be on that list.