Weekly Blog - Monday 3rd November
Last week, both an interview with yours truly and a review of Justice For All were published on www.sonsofspade.tk. The Sons of Spade website (for the uninitiated, Sam Spade was the lead character in Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon’ and is widely recognised as the father of all hard-boiled detectives) is run by a Dutch writer, Jochem Steen, and is a great source of information about what’s fresh in the crime writing genre. I’m pleased to report that the review for Justice For All was superb, at one point it says that I manage to ‘successfully marry the twists and turns of Harlan Coben with the feeling of authenticity and mood of Michael Connelly’ – high praise indeed! And then it goes on to call my lead character, Zac Hunter, ‘the ultimate detective!’ So my thanks go to Jochem for being so gracious with his praise.
In further publicity related news, I’m pleased to report that I had another good book signing at the Norwich Branch of ASDA last Saturday. As well as signing some books and making a few new friends, I also got to meet some of the team from Radio Norwich, who grabbed some snaps of the event to post on their website. Once again, my heartfelt thanks go to ASDA store manager Ian Grieve and the rest of his team for going out of their way to support a local author.
On the writing front, I managed to add another 6,000 words or so to the third novel in the Zac Hunter series, The Beholder, which given that I only worked four of the five days was pretty pleasing – and no, I haven’t been slacking off, as the other day was spent making a few tweaks to the novel’s plot. In each of the books I’ve written thus far this has always become necessary at some point, as minor plot changes that occur during the writing process end up having a cumulative effect that forces me to step back and look at the story as a whole. Taking a day off from writing is never a decision I take lightly though – even though I know that reviewing the plot in this manner is a valuable exercise, it still feels like I’m being lazy (I only ever feel like I’m working when I’m writing – all the other parts of being an author such as plotting, research, publicity, etc, just don’t count for some reason!)
Cheers,
Steve
What’s Steve been listening to this week?
Only For the Night – by Kings of Leon
Make This Your Own – by The Cooper Temple Clause
Zeitgeist - by Smashing Pumpkins
In further publicity related news, I’m pleased to report that I had another good book signing at the Norwich Branch of ASDA last Saturday. As well as signing some books and making a few new friends, I also got to meet some of the team from Radio Norwich, who grabbed some snaps of the event to post on their website. Once again, my heartfelt thanks go to ASDA store manager Ian Grieve and the rest of his team for going out of their way to support a local author.
On the writing front, I managed to add another 6,000 words or so to the third novel in the Zac Hunter series, The Beholder, which given that I only worked four of the five days was pretty pleasing – and no, I haven’t been slacking off, as the other day was spent making a few tweaks to the novel’s plot. In each of the books I’ve written thus far this has always become necessary at some point, as minor plot changes that occur during the writing process end up having a cumulative effect that forces me to step back and look at the story as a whole. Taking a day off from writing is never a decision I take lightly though – even though I know that reviewing the plot in this manner is a valuable exercise, it still feels like I’m being lazy (I only ever feel like I’m working when I’m writing – all the other parts of being an author such as plotting, research, publicity, etc, just don’t count for some reason!)
Cheers,
Steve
What’s Steve been listening to this week?
Only For the Night – by Kings of Leon
Make This Your Own – by The Cooper Temple Clause
Zeitgeist - by Smashing Pumpkins
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