Last week this time I was at 55,000 words on Ghosts, the 4th Chris Wren thriller.…
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Wren likeability & covers – 2020 Writing Week 16/17
This past 2 weeks (I totally lost track of time – the days just meld into…
Wren book 4 & ROI ad analysis – 2020 Writing Week 15
Coronavirus lockdown drags on, and I don’t know about anyone else, but my stress levels directly…
Christopher Wren boxset books 1-3 – 2020 Writing Week 14
I’ve had the first 3 books in the Chris Wren series out for about 9 months…
FB & AMS ad mysteries – 2020 Writing Week 12
First off, the grand news – Wren book, Reparation, is finished in audiobook format. More on…
Saint Justice audio is out! & SPS Live – 2020 Writing Week 10
The most major event this week was the approval and release for sale of the Saint…
Post Data Revelations Ads – 2020 Writing Week 9
So mid-week I had all those revelations fuelled by some new data analysis – full post…
A famous peer, thriller genres and $2.99 – 2020 Writing Week 8
I just saw an old school peer on the TV, Ralf Little! We weren’t friends, but…
Saint Justice sales page tweaks – 2020 Writing Week 6
This week I was kind of busy at work, so had less brain space for writing…
Repetition! Explanation! AMS Experimentation – 2020 Writing Week 3&4
Oh my word, do the lessons about my writing frailties ever end? Saint Justice edits I…
Wren audiobook, LIA, Wren 4 – 2020 Writing Week 2
This week was my second at a new job, so it’s been tricky to find the…
Polishing zombies, Wren edits for audio – 2020 Writing Week 1
I finished major edits of the Last Mayor series right on target at the end of…
Finishing The Light edits, & a new series? – Writing Update 2019 Week 52
This week has been a full-time load of editing, with fitting in some family time in…
Stopped all FB ads, ACX auditions, edits – Writing Update 2019 Week 51
The last week (almost last week of 2019!) I’ve been working on 5 things: Battling the…
The Lies breakthrough & Wren comments – Writing Update 2019 Week 50
The Lies – For 2 weeks I’ve been struggling with my zombie book 8, The Lies…
Wren Bookbub, audiobooks and too much gore – Writing Update 2019 Week 47, 48, 49
On Thurs Nov 28 (Thanksgiving) I had the Bookbub for book one of the Chris Wren…
Edits on The Lash & lessons for Wren – Writing Update 2019 Week 46
This week has been consumed by editing The Lash, my Last Mayor zombie book 9. There…
Bookbub for Wren, The Lash edits & stellar email – Writing Update 2019 Week 45
Lots of writerly action this week – with income contuining to hold at around $160 a…
Confirmatory reviews – Last Mayor is on the right track!
A month ago I received this review of the Last Mayor box set books 1-9 on…
Adding Bookbub ads – Writing Update 2019 Week 43
The stellar performance of my Last Mayor box set books 1-9 continues unabated. This remains something…
Sell the sizzle not the steak in book blurbs – Writing Update 2019 Week 42
When I launched the Soul Jacker box set last week, I also took a hard look…
The astounding binge power of book box sets – Writing Update 2019 Week 41
Some hard talk to start – and one possible reason I stopped the Weekly Writing Updates…
Chris Wren 3, Last Mayor Rwrites & Mentoring – Writing Update 2019 week 39 & 40
Hoo boy. It has been 24 weeks since I last updated this writing blog! What have…
A Shadow Intelligence by Oliver Harris – Review
As a big fan of Oliver Harris’s Nick Belsey police thrillers, I came to this book…
Writing Update 2019 week 15 & 16
Hardly anything has happened with my writing in the last 2 weeks – it’s all been…