It’s been an overwhelming week with the launch of Soul Jacker. I’ve sold more books faster…
Mike John Grist
Soul Jacker is out!
After a year of rewriting Soul Jacker is finally out, and on sale for just $0.99…
Soul Jacker review from Michael Marshall Smith!
This is immense news for my author career, as well as being an amazing personal accomplishment…
Finished new goodie bags for subscribers!
I mentioned earlier I was going to add new bonus art for subscirbers to my email…
Sweet new book pages
Phew, spent a good few hours today micro-managing the Soul Jacker trilogy book pages into existence.…
The Anomaly by Michael Rutger – book review
For 20 years I’ve been reading books by the author variously known as Michael Marshall Smith…
Facebook ad February – $1000 spent and 300 book sales
My month-long experiment with Facebook ads may be at an end. Here’s the story so far:…
3 weeks in to Facebook ads
I have now spent £600 on Facebook ads! You may remember from my analysis a week…
Further thoughts on the narrative structure of Mr. Ruin.
As I wrote yesterday, I got feedback from my beta-read/developmental edit that the new version of…
Fresh Mr. Ruin blurb!
Oh boy, the lessons never end! Recently I’ve been talking and thinking a lot about the…
Why am I not a millionnaire author yet?
This question popped in my head the other day, and hasn’t been far from my thoughts…
Writing Update 2019 week 3
It seems I have stopped blogging apart from these weekly writing updates! Maybe once a week…
Writing Update 2019 week 2
On Tuesday we had the London Indie Authors Marketing Meetup – a record number were in…
International bookbub day!
Today The Saint’s Rise is having it’s International Bookbub! It’s too early to talk about results…
New ads for The Saint’s Rise
With my International Bookbub on The Saint’s Rise coming up in 6 days (Jan 10), I’ve…
Writing Update 2018 week 51
Early in the week I put the 3rd pass editing capstone on my thriller book 2,…
Me on the Fantasy Fiends podcast/video
Last night at 1:30am I woke up from a brief slumber to take part in the…
Agent hunt news…
Yesterday I had two bites on my thriller from agents!! One was for the full, which…
A good teacher :)
Yesterday a student told me, after a discussion of other teachers in a Personal Tutorial session,…
Brexit voters are real…
In the last few days I’ve been having a few Brexit discussions on Facebook, after a…
Not quite Olympic-level yet…
Yesterday I took my heart in my mouth and sent a message to thriller author Barry…
Office lunch chit-chat
Today I felt a bit giddy and chatted to my co-workers at lunch instead of buzzing…
Hanging with thriller authors + doing research
On Monday night I went to the First Monday Crime group, which meets at City University,…
Roaring taps in the kitchen
When I turn the hot water on in the downstairs bathroom, the pipes roar. Sometimes the…
Wonder Woman 2 filming outside my school!
Yesterday teams started setting up Christmassy grottos, fake snow patches and giant snowmen outside my workplace,…