Yearly Archives: 2020

75,000 Words

‘The Hunted Angel’ now runs to 75,000 words. Exactly. Well, according to Word’s word counter, that is. Years of experience have taught me that these things are to be taken with a pinch of salt at the best of times. It will be somewhere near the correct total, though. For the record,

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Delayed – but got there

In my last post, I mentioned how I was homing in on the 60,000-word mark and expected to pass that figure the following day. Well, it was three days late, but I got there. Apologies for the delay. I became distracted with lockdown and the scandals surrounding a certain election,

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CLOSING IN ON 60,000 WORDS

The Hunted Angel is developing. According to Microsoft’s ubiquitous word processor, Word, the overall word count currently stands at 58,381 words. It will be higher later today, of course, and may pass the 60,000-word barrier tomorrow.

How accurate that figure may be is anybody’s guess. I once ran the text of a book I had written through Word and a rival word processor,

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Website working again

This website has been offline for several days. Sorry about that. It was down to technical difficulties beyond my control. To tell the truth, things don’t have to be all that technical to be beyond my control, but there you are. All fixed now, though. Thanks, Mark.

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A Change From Writing: Star Warrior

I am not just a writer, I am also an actor. Well, sort of. A couple of years ago, I was cast in a feature film, entitled ‘Star Warrior – the Legend of Aciris’. With a title like that, it has to be Sci-Fi. I was cast as General Ragtooth.

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‘A King’s Head’ now in Palatino

As promised in my last post, the first trilogy of ‘Avalind’ books, ‘A King’s Head’ has now been reissued in its smart new Palatino livery. This applies only to the printed editions, of course. The Kindle editions are published in Bookerly (as are all Kindle ebooks) but readers are able to change that to a selection of other fonts (one of which is Palatino,

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Avalind Books Switching Fonts

I have been doing a bit of housekeeping on the print editions of my ‘Avalind’ fantasy books. The text remains identical, so there is no need to repurchase if you already have them. What I have done is change the typeface, or ‘font’ as they are usually called these days (inaccurately,

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Hunted Angel On Track Again

My seventeenth book, currently entitled The Hunted Angel‘is under way properly at last. I began writing it soon after the previous Rutter book, The Secret Angels, was published in 2018. I had to shelve it when I reached the 30,000 word mark because I discovered that I was not writing one story,

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Rutter, Reborn Published

I am delighted to confirm that my sixteenth book, Rutter, Reborn, has passed all its tests and is now on sale all over the world in Kindle, epub (Apple, Nook, Kobo etc.) and paperback editions. Check it out on the Rutter Books page of this website for full details,

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Rutter, Reborn Proofreading

Hi once again. It has been a long gap through Lockdown, but I have been busy completing my sixteenth book, Rutter, Reborn. This takes over where its predecessor, The Secret Angels, left off, and chronicles an early major case in her newly-formed Secret Angels Private Investigation Agency.

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