Michael's Blog – July 2015 Archive (3)

July 25^th.

The interview on Angel radio went well. I don’t know when it will be live on air, but it will be shared around on my blog and other social media. Monday evening was a photo shoot with the CHINDI group. It was quite an event in a way. The shoot was supposed to be organised in such a way that we all knew when we were due to have our pictures taken. In the end it was a glorious kind of melee where we all had individual shots, then a cluster of group shots.…

July 19^th.

Good week last week: I’m actually making progress! Received confirmation from my publisher that I now have the UK paperback rights to my last two novels, Past Imperfect and The Boy from Berlin. I have completed the edit on the first of these, and now have to embark on the daunting task of creating a presentable book jacket. The promotion I ran for A Covert War yielded reasonable results. I managed to sell 42 books last week, which is…

July 11^th.

It looks like I missed a week, but lots have occurred which kind of diverted me. Hospital appointments get in the way. So essential of course, but they do take up a lot of time. Last Monday I went into Chichester and introduced myself to the Waterstones manager. He was very pleasant and didn’t throw me out of the shop. I was able to talk about CHINDI, the writers group I often mention now. He said he wouldn’t be averse to doing a book launch, but would…