Michael's Blog – June 2013 Archive (4)

I did something during the week that I’ve rarely done before, and that was to enter a short story competition. I’m not a great believer in short stories because to me they are more or less like and extended joke with a punch line at the end. There’s very little room for all the artistic merits about building characters, drama, mystery etc., but I succumbed this time with a story of a flight I once took in a Harrier jump jet. I was fortunate enough in 1996 to be in the back seat of a Harrier…

It’s been quite a week one way or another. I finally managed to get on with some writing, or rather, catching up with what I had managed in the past. I’m putting together a kind of family saga, but with a difference. I’ll be running two stories in parallel; both of which are connected, but not that it’s entirely obvious from the outset. More astute readers may catch on early in the book, but I intend something of that nature to happen to all the readers as I will be dropping clues left right…

My latest addition to the Amazon kindle ranks is THE EAGLE'S COVENANT. I have reduced the price to $0.99, and will keep it low until the end of June. This is a modern thriller set in modern Germany. The two main characters are Joanna Schiller - the young, English widow of Hans Schiller who was heir to the colossal, Schiller corporation - and Conor Lenihan, ex IRA, ex SAS and a killer. Events bring these two together after Joanna's newborn son is kidnapped by a terrorist gang of whom Lenihan…

Back in harness again and looking forward to getting on with my next novel. This will be a ‘composite’: a mixture of two books written a long time ago but never having seen the light of day. The whole project has been growing on me for some time. I had started another thriller last year, but the advent of Amazon Kindle and indie publishing, along with the fact that I had levered the paperback rights to my books from my publisher meant that I spent most of the year working in that direction.…