A proud day for an author

Today I have to pinch myself and remind myself what has just happened over the last few short months as the first copies of my book have just arrived !!!

So I meet Tom Evans at a wedding in June.

In July, based on one sample chapter, Tom got me a publishing deal with MX [...]

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The speed of modern publishing

No sooner than the third draft has appeared than I’ve seen what the book will look like on an iPad and the Kindle … am I glad I met Tom and he’s introduced me to Steve Emecz of MX Publishing …

… do we have to wait so long before I get a print [...]

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Signing Contracts

Yesterday was one of the most memorable and momentus days in my career – and as you can see from my Making Stories blogs, there have been a few. My literary agent, Tom Evans aka the Bookwright, introduced me to to Steve Emecz, my new publisher.

Apart from a splendid lunch at ‘the Club’, [...]

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How I got published

The story about how I got a publishing deal within less than a month is one that needs telling. I’d written three books already virtually in entirety and had assumed, like many writers, that no publisher would be interested (I’d approached a few speculatively already).

I was at a social function recently and was lucky [...]

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