Ha ha, if you didn’t already feel the cloying desperation of self-promotion from the intro page or the writing page then perhaps another splash of the book cover will catch you: I put this in because I just heard, through the…
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Holy Smokes I Wrote a Book!
Posted in Writing Tagged with: adventure, book, border to border, land rover, off-road, travel, writing
Young and Stupid
Really, the whole thing could’ve ended much worse. An old truck, abused through decades of off-road adventures. A young, stupid, and inexperienced driver setting off across a continent that has killed many seasoned and gritty pioneers. That it ended it…
Posted in Events, Writing Tagged with: adventure, age, book, expedition, land rover, pioneer, station wagon, stupid, writing, young, youth
Book Origins
Where do book ideas come from? My first book was just a retelling of an epic Land Rover adventure I undertook, with bits of history and culture stuffed in the narrative cracks like cotton batting in the planks of a…
New Book Release!
At last my debut novel sees the light of day! This book started as a single question a few years ago: what side of WWII was Finland on? With a little research I discovered there’s not such a clear answer. …
Posted in Writing Tagged with: ash of winter's work, book, finland, novel, russia, winter war, writing, WWII
Book Preview
Happy Friday! Because I’m feeling magnanimous, all you readers will get a special pre-release peek at part of the cover for my next book being released, The Ash of Winter’s Work. This book will be published very soon, and I’ll…
Queries
Oh lawdy, queries. The bane of every writer and the joy of the agent. A query is a boiled-down description of your book you write to sell it to an agent or publisher. Think of the 100-200 word blurb on…
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