Inaugural Post
February 18th, 2009 by adminHello Reader,
I’m proud to welcome you - at last - to my new website, and to my first-ever blog. I read somewhere this week that there are already tens of millions of bloggers here on the world-wide web, which made me wonder - briefly - about doing this. But there are tens of millions of books out there too, and I suspect that, in the same way all books eventually find themselves in the hands of the right readers, bloggers too reach their perfect audiences, given time, luck and a following wind.
Heavy snow and icy roads have kept me largely housebound for a large part of this month, which is no hardship as long as there’s wood for the fire and milk for cups of tea (of which I drink a heroic number whilst working). With no distractions, I whipped through my final, final read-through of the copy-edited manuscript of The Doctor of Thessaly (due out in July). It’s gone to the printers now, so if I want to make more changes, tough. Better not to look at it again - my inner perfectionist always finds something that’s not quite right. In a few weeks the proof copies will be out, and the first reader comments will be in. I’m very pleased with the Doctor - fingers crossed that readers like it too.
I’ve been working with Bloomsbury on an ‘out and about’ schedule for the first part of this year. So far I shall be in Torquay at the beginning of April - I’m doing a crime-writing workshop - and in Bristol in May. I’m very pleased to see Michael Connelly - one of my heroes! - will be in Bristol, though I didn’t manage to swing it to get on the same author panel as him. Well, not so far… Where there’s a will, there’s often a way. Failing that, I’ll join his book-signing queue…