Reflections on launching a book into the ether At one point on Saturday I found myself sitting on the floor of a raised stage while all around me people I knew, people I’d just met, and people I’d never seen before talked and laughed and drank together. The pub was full, a long narrow hallContinueContinue reading “Fly my pretty!”
Category Archives: A. B. Finlayson
A SOMETHING of SOMETHING and SOMETHING
I feel like I’ve missed a trick with The Book and the Blade. It would seem that I did not get the memo regarding the standard structure of novel titles in the contemporary market. Absolutely everything seems to be some combination of A____ of_____ and _______ , and with less than ten days to goContinueContinue reading “A SOMETHING of SOMETHING and SOMETHING”
Rock Zombie (or One Night in Redcar with the Dead)
This is the story that happens when you think sod it, let’s write the daftest thing we can think of and tie it in to all our teenage memories. Rock Zombie is a novel about a young lad drinking at the Beach Park on Redcar seafront… he dies… he comes back as a ghost… butContinueContinue reading “Rock Zombie (or One Night in Redcar with the Dead)”
I have news!
What a crazy end to the year it has been! My first novel, THE BOOK AND THE BLADE, was originally slated for release in September of this year but of course that didn’t happen for a myriad of reasons. The new publication date is the 28th February, 2023, which bizarrely means my “debut” novel willContinueContinue reading “I have news!”
Reindeer Games is published!
Now, don’t get me wrong, I cocked up big time and my little novella was released into the wild well before I realised what was going on, but here we are… a published novella. Albeit, a published novella about Santa’s reindeer getting murdered but still, I did a thing! Here it is… https://read.amazon.com.au/kp/embed?asin=B0BQGL1YDT&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_3MXM7F0097DRAMRPPTN6 I hadContinueContinue reading “Reindeer Games is published!”
Almost there…
For anyone keeping track, Reindeer Games has just been uploaded for publication on Amazon. This is where we currently stand… I’ve added it for the lowest price I can across all markets but I’ve also enrolled the silly bloody thing in Kindle Select, which means it is exclusive to Amazon. More importantly, this means IContinueContinue reading “Almost there…”