Weekly Blog - Monday 15th September
Local Fame Beckons?
This week’s blog comes to you a bit earlier than usual, as my talented web maven Chris is off on her hols for a well-earned break, no doubt happy to be free of my daily e-mails asking her for another ‘minor update’ for the site! This also means that the blog is shorter than some of the novellas I’ve been posting recently, as at the time of writing I’m only halfway through the week.
Anyway, to business. Wednesday 10th September saw the publication of an excellent article about yours truly in my local newspaper, the Eastern Daily Press (EDP). Their literary editor, Keiron Pim, wrote a great piece about me that included lots of plugs for Justice For All, and I really can’t thank him enough. He described the book as “a pacy, page-turning read that’s hard to put down…a vintage piece of hardboiled crime fiction’ – high praise indeed! And the EDP have also kindly allowed me to reproduce the article and accompanying photo on my web site (www.stevenhague.com).
On the writing front, work on ‘The Beholder’ continued apace, with this week shaping up to be almost as productive as the last. On Thursday I broke through the 40,000-word barrier, which was a cause for muted celebration. When I first set out to write a novel, the thought of coming up with 100,000 words or so is quite daunting, so I tend to focus on little milestones along the way to keep my spirits up. The next target is 50,000 words – i.e. the halfway point – which will soon hopefully be a distant memory!
Cheers,
Steve
What’s Steve been listening to this week?
Powerage – by AC-DC
Man Vs Monster – by Fighting With Wire
The Dirty South – by Drive By Truckers
P.S. Please keep those Amazon reviews coming – I truly believe that they play a big part in boosting sales of JFA!
This week’s blog comes to you a bit earlier than usual, as my talented web maven Chris is off on her hols for a well-earned break, no doubt happy to be free of my daily e-mails asking her for another ‘minor update’ for the site! This also means that the blog is shorter than some of the novellas I’ve been posting recently, as at the time of writing I’m only halfway through the week.
Anyway, to business. Wednesday 10th September saw the publication of an excellent article about yours truly in my local newspaper, the Eastern Daily Press (EDP). Their literary editor, Keiron Pim, wrote a great piece about me that included lots of plugs for Justice For All, and I really can’t thank him enough. He described the book as “a pacy, page-turning read that’s hard to put down…a vintage piece of hardboiled crime fiction’ – high praise indeed! And the EDP have also kindly allowed me to reproduce the article and accompanying photo on my web site (www.stevenhague.com).
On the writing front, work on ‘The Beholder’ continued apace, with this week shaping up to be almost as productive as the last. On Thursday I broke through the 40,000-word barrier, which was a cause for muted celebration. When I first set out to write a novel, the thought of coming up with 100,000 words or so is quite daunting, so I tend to focus on little milestones along the way to keep my spirits up. The next target is 50,000 words – i.e. the halfway point – which will soon hopefully be a distant memory!
Cheers,
Steve
What’s Steve been listening to this week?
Powerage – by AC-DC
Man Vs Monster – by Fighting With Wire
The Dirty South – by Drive By Truckers
P.S. Please keep those Amazon reviews coming – I truly believe that they play a big part in boosting sales of JFA!
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