Writing news
In my last newsletter, I had just launched my new book A Strange Belief: Weird Stories. The book is currently FREE to download on Amazon US and UK! At the time of writing, number 7 in the Science Fiction Anthologies chart. My first and bestselling novel, We Watch You, is also FREE! My other novel, They Lie Here, is now only 99p / 99c, which is a total bargain! This is all part of The Indie Author Winter Wonderland event, hosted by author Hayley Anderton. Lots of authors are taking part and all the books are on this website. You can find my books on there, or if you wish go straight to Amazon. I am really pleased to be part of this event, particularly because I now have so little time to promote my books and this way everyone is helping to promote each other and indie books in general. November also saw the 1st anniversary of The Indie Books & Authors Newsletter which I compile each week.
Blog news
October had a record number of views - my review of Gary Numan’s acoustic show was especially popular - and I thought it wouldn’t get any better than that. I was wrong, because November had even more views at nearly 3.5k. I consistently have well over 100 views a day, mostly from search engines. Clearly I must be doing something right! My 1000th post is coming up this month too, so it’s a great time for my blog.
Recent posts
Fiction review: The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
Non-fiction review: Comfort Eating by Grace Dent
Film of the book: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Coming soon
Fiction review: In the Ditch by Buchi Emecheta
Non-fiction review: That Boy of Yours Wants Looking At by Simon Smalley
Film of the book: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Project Gutenberg random reads - wrap-up
My favourite reads in 2023
The archive
With all the 60 year celebrations of Doctor Who, I’ve picked out my quickfire review of the first 11 re-booted series, which includes my favourite episode from each.
#currentlyreading
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From 80s Movies by Hadley Freeman, which I’m listening to the audiobook of.
#currentlywatching
The Vicar of Dibley as I fancied watching all of it from the beginning as one of my comfort-watch sitcoms.
#currentlylistening
NOW That’s What I Call Music! volume 5. This was a bargain record I acquired a few months ago and is from 1985.
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading - see you next time!