Time flies. I
obviously missed the boarding call as I’m stick stuck in customs, snowed under
by duty free sunglasses and Toblerone, trying to recover my ticket from the
Haribo-High pre-teen who stole it from the not-so-legal frequent flyer hiding
in the flower pot. Time is not a luxury that any of us can afford. First class
is a king’s ransom on the clock, business class would be welcomed for the trade
of minutes and seconds…if only we could get on the ruddy plane to ‘More Hours
in the Day’ in the first place!
Busy isn’t the
half of it.
But excitement
is.
Before I start,
let me just tease you with a tid-bit of titillating trivia. Mark Lawrence, yes THE MARK LAWRENCE, published author of both
‘Prince of Thorns’ and ‘King of Thorns’ was gracious enough to
sit down and answer a few of my questions. The interview (via email) will take
up the feature slot on my blog, tomorrow. Be sure to check back for it.
In regards to my
own writing, it’s not going too badly. Work on ‘From Man to Man’ is almost complete, and I am um’ing and ah’ing
whether to release the complete short story as a ‘free forever’ download across
the web e.g. Smashwords, Amazon, Lulu etc. ‘It
Began With Ashes’ is now in its final stages, the front cover is all but
complete, I’m due to order the ISBN numbers, format the galley to ‘ebook
friendly’, somehow plot a map, and complete a final test read. Sounds a lot,
but things are looking positive for an October release. Work on ‘It Began With Ashes’s sequel has been
stalled in the events of current, but at 35,000/50,000 words (approx. total) it
shouldn’t take long to complete the first draft once I sit down with it again.
All of my future
titles, though self published, are due to be released under the publishing house
‘Four Branches’ – a company run
solely by myself at this time. Long term, one of my dreams is to establish a
publishing house to publish other authors, and if this is the first step
towards that goal, then I’m psyched!
Next week’s book
review will close the door on David
Gemmell’s ‘trilogy’ featuring the legendary Waylander. ‘Hero In Shadows’ is the final instalment featuring the
assassin, and it’s kept me turning pages since I opened the book less than a
week ago.
All in all, it’s
busy times, but business is good. You’ll all hear from me tomorrow, and be sure
not to miss it as Mark Lawrence’s feature and exclusive interview will be on
the headlines!
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