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This is the time and place.

Posted: 26th July 2010 by the author in Book Related, Sparrow's Flight

The Birds Are Flying

Posted: 7th July 2010 by the author in Book Related, Sparrow's Flight

Purchase Order away! So I took a deep breath and made my mark at the bottom of an expensive piece of paper. After all the rewrites, tweaks, ISBN numbers, cover designs, the time is almost here and in less than a month I will be sitting atop a pile of shiny new books. Of course [...]

Preview Time – check out my flaps!

Posted: 17th June 2010 by the author in Book Related, Sparrow's Flight

Here it is, in a glorious 3 colour frenzy. In a week of big announcements comes your opportunity to see the full cover (less barcode) of Sparrow’s Flight.

More Rejection

Posted: 18th May 2010 by the author in Book Related, Sparrow's Flight

Okay, so the Pindar competition board didn’t really want to see anything other than “run of the mil” fiction. That’s their perogative I suppose, but after all the effort over a shortened writing period I think I am justified in being a little underwhelmed.

Another day, another doubt…

Posted: 9th April 2010 by the author in Book Related, Sparrow's Flight

Confidence or a lack thereof is a terrible thing. It was less than two weeks since I submitted Sparrow’s Flight for consideration, at that time I was pretty happy with myself. I had allowed myself an extra brandy or two and a celebratory evening of BFBC2. Now I just don’t know, was it good enough? [...]

How to make a trailer?

Posted: 12th March 2010 by the author in Book Related, Sparrow's Flight

Time to think creative. It won’t be long before my movie within a book project will be ready to submit, and I’m thinking about how to get some public support. This is the age of YouTube after all, maybe I need to mock up some teaser trailers and get this thing viral? Some fake rushes [...]