I’m so pleased to announce that HF Virtual Book Tours is now launching a book tour for Oliver & Jack: In Axminster Workhouse! This makes me as happy as a pig in mud to be able to find out what people who haven’t known me since birth think of my work. Here’s the lovely banner […]
Archives for February 2016
Out In The World Goes Live
The sense of satisfaction that I get when I push “publish” or “upload” can only be matched by sleeping in on a rainy Saturday morning. That, or a big bowl of popcorn and my favorite movie, viewed from the most comfortable couch you could ever imagine. But lest I bore you with my rather simple […]
Cover Reveal – Out In The World
Book four in the Oliver & Jack series is moving along nicely. Most recently, Bookfly Design and I finalized the cover, which I’m including for you now, so you can see what I see, which is Bookfly’s amazing attention to detail, and a terrific hand at bringing the tone and feel of the book to […]
Edits and Read-Through for Out In The World
Books don’t write themselves, as anybody could tell you. While writing a book, I look more like this: Than this: But what might not get as often a mention is that books also do not edit themselves. For that you need, at the very least, a beta-reader (mine is the unrivaled talent of Wendy Rathbone), […]
Other Locations in Fagin’s Boy
The setting for the story in Fagin’s Boy is pretty tight, moving from Chelsea in the east to the Three Cripples in the West, with Soho and the haberdashery in between, so I thought I’d include the rest of the locations I picked out. Mr. Brownlow’s townhouse, I determined, was located in close proximity to […]
Between the Haberdashery and The Three Cripples
I’m all about location, location, location, and like to get as many details as close to realism as I possibly can. These locations in Fagin’s Boy can’t, of course, be real, since even Dickens’ London was an imaginary place, but I can get close. And besides, it’s fun to do the research! This post is about […]