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The Puzzle – Father Brown Is On The Case
Not really, but I will explain. Sales of The Puzzle have not been great and this was concerning. This is my first full novel since Rewind and Trouble Cross were placed on Amazon in 2012, although there has been Once Upon A Week in 2019. There has also been the split out of Trouble Cross…
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Monday Horribilis
I thought of writing a post Sunday, tried to write it yesterday and but couldn’t finish until today. It might be the chronic fatigue I was diagnosed with in November. Or it might be it was just Monday Horribilis yesterday. Monday’s are universally the worst day of the week, but a Monday after being offwork…
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Daggers Out!
Julie Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins (1964). It would not happen today. Not for a Disney family film. Just as I am unlikely to watch today’s Oscar winning films, so too was I never going to write a Booker Prize or Nobel winning piece of literature. The best I could ever…
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PUZZLE ME THIS!
My new book is out, and I should be over the moon but I’m not. I don’t have that euphoric feeling that I see with other writers on Twitter when they have a book coming out. Why is that? Experience for one thing. I now have 9 books on Amazon which is a somewhat skewed…
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Twas the day before Christmas
Twas the day before Christmas, when all through the flat Not a creature was stirring, except for one lowly pratt, No stockings were hung by the chimney with care, No hopes that anybody soon would be there, When living so long, with nothing to show, At this time of the year, there is no inner…
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Failure to Launch
I finished writing ‘The Puzzle’ in May 2021 and have been trying to find an agent or publisher since. Fifty rejections – or in the majority of cases just silences – later and I entered it in the Readers’ Favorite 2023 Competition for an entry price of $119. The results were out today and whilst…
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We’re all going on a bummer holiday
My holiday officially starts today, as yesterday was a Bank Holiday, and I don’t think I have ever dreaded two weeks off work more. Not that I want to be working but it is going to be just like a work week without the work. Not going away. No money. In the flat alone as…
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WC is full of W
The white flag from my last blog is still flying – well, probably lying limply on the flagpole really – although it might be a little larger now. Things are spiralling out of control. That last blog missed out another cross I have had to bear for years. In addition to being consistently alone, no…
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White Flag
I have not posted a blog in some time – other than the Wordle League table – and this may not change any time soon. Since I hit the zero birthday in February everything has come to a stop, not that things were zooming along anyway. I look back on not a life but an…
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Once Upon a Week
Now, this is my first effort in the area of children’s writing and I didn’t know if they would be any good, so I asked a couple of primary school teachers to read them.
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Rewind Review
Rewind by David A. Wardle is the story of Jason, who commits suicide on his 40th birthday in the year 2003. However, he doesn’t end up dead but wakes up in his eight-year-old body in the year 1971.
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Get it Whilst it’s Hot!
I have finally taken the plunge again and signed a contract with Austin Macauley to publish this book in printed form. Part of this will mean a new e-book version so the existing one on Amazon will have to be unpublished.
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DOCTOR! OH NO!
Chapter 1 – Off to P S.P.I.D.E.R. Sindy Cobweb lay on the beach in the French Riviera soaking up the sun, trying to get the chill of her first assignment out of her bones. Arctic Roll Call had taken three weeks to complete out of which two and a half weeks had been spent in…
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Wordle Wonder League @ 30/9/24
Position Name Games Points Ave PPG 1 Joshua McTree 22 93 4.2 2 Leena Gantam 22 91 4.1 3 Gail 22 86 3.9 4 Donna J. 21 86 4.1 5 Nicola R. 21 86 4.1 6 Arturo Yee 22 85 3.9 7 Christine B. 22 85 3.9 8 Annie Amiss 22 84 3.8 9 Lisa…
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Wordle Wonder League @ 21/9/24
Position Name Games Points Ave PPG 1 Joshua McTree 13 55 4.2 2 Leena Gantam 13 54 4.2 3 All Bicep 13 53 4.1 4 Donna J. 13 52 4.0 5 Annie Amiss 13 51 3.9 6 G McLeod 13 51 3.9 7 Gail 13 51 3.9 8 Christine B. 13 50 3.8 9 Nicola…
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Wordle WOnder League @ 14/9/24
Position Name Games Points Ave PPG 1 Annie Amiss 6 27 4.5 2 Nicola R. 6 27 4.5 3 Joshua McTree 6 26 4.3 4 Rach 6 26 4.3 5 All Bicep 6 25 4.2 6 Furious of Brexitshire 6 25 4.2 7 Gail 6 25 4.2 8 Jimmy 6 25 4.2 9 Larry Oliver…
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