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Col's diary - second excerpt

Hi there

Here's the second except from Col's diary whilst being interrogated bu British Intelligence 'somewhere in England'.

Through different Eyes - Chapter 11

I am currently working on chapter 13 of TDE - and a new short story involving Colette Roberts. She is the SOE radio operator who befriended Mutti Frida whilst both were imprisoned in Ravensbruck. Mutti Frida's daughter, Colette, is named in her memory. Mutti Frida survived Ravensbruck but Colette did not.

An entry from Col's Diary

Saturday 8th September 1962

They gave me back my diary today; it’s been five days. I know because I’ve been counting them since we walked into the Dusseldorf army HQ asking for political asylum. They took everything from us then, including our clothes and my diary. I ended up with some sort of one-piece overall. Once the legs and sleeves were rolled up, it so...

TDE Chapter 10 (first draft) is on the sync server

Welcome to July (the depths of Australia's winter)!

I have uploaded the first draft of Chapter 10 to the sync server - go to my Discord server for the link (all patrons have access to this - if you're not able to access it, email me and I'll help you). I've also distributed the first 10 draft chapters to my Beta readers.

Chapter 11 is happening (currently 2,500 words and at this poi...

Improving the 'blurb' for "Through my Eyes. Again."

I've been running adverts on Amazon for "Through my Eyes. Again." (which sounds expensive but isn't as you only pay for clicks). My ads have been seen nearly 1000 times and have been clicked on 5 times generating 1 sale. I want to try to increase the click rate and thus the purchase rate with a better blurb. The 'average' rate is about 10 click per 1000 views.

I've had some feedback that...

TDE Chapter 9 (first draft) is on the Sync server

Welcome to May!

Down here in subtropical Australia, that means winter is approaching. Nights are cooling off and we probably have had our last over 30C day until late spring (that's October). The solar heater is keeping the swimming pool warm, but I we will probably turn it off next weekend after a last swim.

I have uploaded the first draft of Chapter 9 to the Sync server and attach...

Here's Chapter 8 of TDE for your Easter Weekend

Here's the first draft of TDE Chapter 8 - I have some concerns about this chapter being a bit too slow - your feedback would be most useful!

In other news, TMEA how has 5* reviews on Amazon and Goodreads - now all I need is for people to actually buy it (and give it more good reviews to get it up the list). I've been spending an inordinate amount of time in getting the marketing effort or...

Through my Eyes. Again. - released!

My debut novel "Through my Eyes. Again." has been released on all the usual ebook platforms. You can find it a https://books2read.com/u/3GA1O8  

The Amazon (US) link is 2021-03-26 06:52:35 +0000 UTC View Post

The story behind the cover of TMEA

I’ve been asked by a few people about the cover of Through my Eyes. Again. as  it’s a bit different from the ‘usual’ modern covers. As I started  writing an explanation, I thought that you might like a glimpse of what  goes on behind the final production of the book. A cover is the ‘hook’  that first attracts a reader and so it needs to be well baited wi...

Through different Eyes - front cover candidates

Let me know which version you like best - faded or vibrant colours?
In other news, TDE chapter 8 is now over 4000 words...

Chapter 7 of TDE uploaded to the Sync server

Hi folks,

I'm really pleased to tell you that the much delayed Chapter 7 of TDE is now available on the Sync server. 

 It's also available here (below).

As the release date of TMEA approaches, I'm still very busy with marketing activity - but I expect to have Chapter 8 up her by the end of March.

Take care of you and yours in these continuing strange times,<...

Mrs Henderson's Limp - final version

I have uploaded the final version of Mrs Henderson's Limp to the Sync Server (go to my Discord server for the link). There have been a number of minor corrections and a chunk of new material added at the end.

I will be releasing this short story as a 'teaser' to help build momentum for the launch of TMEA on 24th March.

Enjoy (I hope)1

I have uploaded the final version of...

Mrs Henderson's Limp - first draft

I promised you a short story before the end of January - and here it is.   Please take a read and enjoy - and give me your constructive criticism from typos all the way through plot, character and pacing.

This story is a prequel to TMEA - giving some of the back story to Mrs Henderson. Will meets her (although she's not named) at the MI6 HQ late in TMEA and, as you know from the...

Interview at Walkinta

I've just completed my first interview as an author! You can find the interview at
https://youtu.be/4zeDEUOXWls

I'd love to here what you think!

You won't be charged for January

Hi Patrons

For a variety of reasons, I have not been able to make any significant progress with TDE this month and so I have paused your pledges for January. The biggest reason is that I have been working on publishing TMEA and trying to get some marketing in place. As part of that marketing, I am writing a short story prequel 'teaser' - about Mrs Henderson's experiences in the Special Op...

TMEA Published - release date is 24th March

Through my Eyes. Again. is now being published, with a release date of 24th March, 2021. I have been able to do this because of the interest and support shown by readers here. I

My thanks, to you all!

I have published through Draft2Digital, which turned out to be a much simpler task than I had at first feared. D2D distributes to all the major outlets and (amazingly) to libr...

TMEA - independent publication

Well, the 'final' read through of TMEA turned up a few more edits. However, I am now pleased to announce that the ebook version of TMEA is to be published, probably late in January.

Patrons are able to download the final ebook version from the sync server (the link for this is on my Discord server).

I'll announce the final publication date here after Christmas...and now I can at la...

TMEA editing process completed!

The final editing pass for Through my Eyes. Again. (grammar and punctuation) had completed and I'm now preparing the final version for self-publishing. I'm not sure how long this is going to take - but it won't be in time for Christmas. When the final version is published, Patrons will be able to acquire the it for free.

In other news, the academic year is over and I will now be ...

The light at the end of the tunnel...

is the end of the academic year, which is now in sight! I will finish all the marking and reporting in the next couple of days and then it's back to work on TDE. The first draft of chapter 7 of TDE is at 2,300 words and I'm still hoping to complete and post this before Christmas.

There's a great deal of other things going on though - my son and his family are travelling to Brisbane to be ...

Through different Eyes - Chapter 6

First of all, my apologies as this chapter has taken much longer to surface than I had hoped. Handling the sensitive and very useful feedback from my editor took much more time than I had expected - and there will be another flurry of activity once the punctuation and grammar sweep is returned to me in the next week or so.

As the end of the academic year is approaching rapidly, I decided ...

And TDE is underway again…

Going back and editing a book is both boring and dangerous: boring because chasing down and eliminating repeated words is just … boring, and dangerous because the temptation is huge to start editing the text around the repeated word, which greatly extends the time to find and rid the text of those wretched repeats. I have eliminated the 953 occurrences and variants of ‘look’ and am now wo...