Michael's Blog – January 2015 Archive (3)

January 25, 2015

I was interviewed last week at the Bognor Observer. We talked about my novel, Past Imperfect, and other aspects of my life including my cancer treatment. That wasn’t part of the plan, but once the journalist picked up on it, he wanted to include some detail in the article. I’m looking forward to seeing it in print, which will be next Thursday. Hopefully the article will appear in the Chichester Observer too: a sister newspaper. Although I don’t expect people to…

January 17, 2015

I’m in the process of re-publishing seven of my titles which up until now have been published under the name of Acclaimed Books Ltd. The reason is simple: I want to manage my own titles now that me and my wife have settled back in UK. One of the problems with changing the name of the publisher — in this case from AB.c to Michael Parker — is that any reviews accumulated can be lost unless you keep the same ISBN number and don’t change the edition number. I learned the…

January 10, 2015

I’m a little early with my blog post this week, but sometimes I’m a little late. The first couple of weeks of 2015 look promising for what my progress in the literary world could be like. I have seen a short lift in my book sales, although nothing to get too excited about. I also attended the Chindi writers group in Chichester, and will be going up to London for the International Thriller Writers’ Organization’s European meeting.

Meeting with the Chindi group…