I have reached my first landmark. A New Allegiance is now one hundred pages long. Experience has taught me that the first hundred pages are the hardest to write – and the hardest of them all is the the opening one. Once they are done, it gets easier.
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As I mentioned in a previous post, the provisional title of my new book, Bruno’s Choice, was unlikely to survive. It was too similar to Sophie’s Choice, and may have given the impression that the plot bore similarities with the famous film, which it most certainly does not.
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My new book, Bruno’s Choice, has hit its first target. I passed the 10,000 word marker this morning. I can’t remember what the 10,000th word was, but it doesn’t matter. It probably will not retain that status for long. I overhaul my work constantly, so it changes all the time.
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Now that Julie Rutter’s latest adventure, The Hunted Angel, has clocked up its initial sales, I have spent much of the last couple of weeks doing housekeeping on my other books. All have gone through a thorough re-examintation by Word’s built-in grammar checker, which unearthed a number of minor errors that I had not realised were present.
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With The Hunted Angel now on sale, and my sixteen other books given a dusting over, and reissued, I have made a start on my eighteenth book. Don’t hold your breath. It’s only six pages long at the moment, and months of toil lie ahead before it emerges as a completed novel,
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A final tweak before all of my books are reissued. My anthology of short stories, Stella and Rose (which includes a further Rutter story, Rutter’s Rescue) has a new cover. Its third.
I was never happy with the previous two. The first showed what was supposed to resemble a feminine undergarment,
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My new book, The Hunted Angel, is now available to the entire market. Until today, it was published on Amazon only, in ebook (Kindle) form and paperback. From today, it is also available from (wait for it): Apple (Apple Books), Barnes and Noble (Nook), Kobo and reading libraries,
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Eureka! ‘The Hunted Angel’ is published at last. It should be live, as a Kindle ebook, on Amazon by the time you read this. The paperback will follow in a couple of days. For reasons best known to Amazon, it takes longer to clear a paperback book for publication.
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Cuzzie’s real name is Diane, but she is my wife’s cousin and known as ‘Cuzzie’ to one and all. Even our kids called her ‘Auntie Cuzzie’ when they were small. For all that, she is my proofreader because she is nothing short of ruthless when assessing my work –
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Things are moving on rapidly now. I have moved on from trawling through the text backwards (which was a chore, believe me) and have run the Grammarly check. Grammarly is a free download. There is also a paid-for version, which offers more features, but I don’t use it.
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