I asked my readers what they would like my secret to be. I couldn’t say at the time as I was waiting for one piece of news. Now I have that, I can reveal one of my readers, Kicki Ellmen, had the correct answer. Bolinda Audio have bought the rights for Book 4 of the Cowgill Family Saga, New Arrivals in Byland Crescent, and have now confirmed, as with the first three, it will be read by Nathaniel Priestley. When I know more, I shall let everyone know.
Today, the first in my DI Mike Nash Thrillers, What Lies Beneath, is free to download on Amazon Kindle as part of Joffe Books ‘Free Book Friday’ promotion. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YN51YRQ
I’ve been checking its status in the Kindle charts and now at 4:30 p.m. it has reached #4 in the free rankings. Will it reach #1? It did on 29th January 2013 with it’s original title Depth of Despair published by my first publisher before the backlist was eventually sold to Joffe Books and reissued with a new title and cover. I shall wait with anticipation.
The new DI Mike Nash #17 is out today. Already climbing the charts in Australia as they are 10 hours ahead of us and could have almost read the book before the rest of the world. The excellent reviews are coming in and question if the unresolved loose ends will be tied up in the next book. Well, I’m not going to say. Readers will have to wait and find out.
The next DI Mike Nash thriller #17, Death Sentence, is due for release by Joffe Books in January. I thought a peek at the cover might please my readers.
It’s been a long wait for my readers, but following a lot of work and several re-writes, the final book in The Cowgill Family Saga, New Arrivals in Byland Crescent, is out today.
Many have contacted me asking if there was more, some impatient to know if the connection between the Cowgill Family in Scarborough and and the Fisher family in Australia will be revealed. If you want to know, then you will just have to read it.
This is Archie, an 11.5 week old Cocker Spaniel who has moved in and taken over the house. With the next book, Death Sentence, due to be released in January (there will be a cover reveal soon) at this moment I am trying to draft and write the next DI Nash thriller — and thankfully I am in no great hurry to finish it. Perhaps that’s as well with a completely new routine to organise, and not just for Archie to learn. We have always had calm Labradors and believe me this is an entirely new experience of a pup which I am sure has been weaned on Jet Fuel! He loves to play and charge about, pinch slippers, and is intent on destroying the garden. But it’s great fun.
Many readers of my Cowgill Family Saga have asked if there would be a fourth book as the third left them wanting to know more. It was intended there would be potentially five books in the series. However, the decision was made to finalise the saga in four, hence a lot of rewriting and the delay in release. As yet I don’t have the blurb, or publication date in December, but I thought a sneak peek at the cover would help.
This is exciting — I’ve been translated . . . well not me, but the first three books of The Cowgill Family Saga. A slight change in the titles, Brothers and Sisters, Before The Storm and Coming Home. In late November, any of my readers who prefer to read in Russian can get the saga in translation. I love the covers and it is very strange to see my name in Cyrillic.
If you’re still playing catch-up with DI Mike Nash, then here’s the opportunity to download a box set of books 11-15 for only £1.99/$2.99. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJK3X3MR/
Since 20 June, my publisher Joffe Books has released a new DI Mike Nash thriller #16 Guilty As Sin, a box set of numbers 6 – 10 of the series, a box set of the Cowgill Family Saga, and via Bolinda Audio, the third of the saga, Coming Home to Byland Crescent. I hope there’s sufficient there to satisfy my readers and listeners. In the meantime, as Mike Nash #17 has already been submitted, I’ll try and make headway on #18.
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