Blog posts
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A number of recent reviews on Amazon have asked when the next in the DCI Jack Harris series of crime novels will appear and I thought an update would be useful. I have been hard at work on the latest book for several months and am now in the final stages before the draft is…
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The Railway Man is the latest DCI John Blizzard crime novel by John Dean to be given a refresh and relaunch, complete with new cover for the ebook, by Joffe Books, who recently acquired its publisher The Book Folks. In the book, which can be purchased in various formats on Amazon, Chief Inspector John Blizzard…
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The first reviews and ratings have been posted for Malcolm Beadle’s remarkable debut novella Koki and the feedback given on Amazon has seen the book receive five five star ratings, all five stars, the highest mark available. The novella, which tells the story of a Vietnam War sniper who paints his face as a clown…
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Research carried out by the team at Joffe Books, which recently acquired publisher The Book Folks, has confirmed the fast-growing popularity of John Dean’s DCI John Blizzard series of crime novels. As part of the relaunch of the series, of which there are twelve novels to date, the Joffe Books team added up the number…
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Joffe Books, which recently bought publisher The Book Folks, publisher of John Dean’s crime novels, has announced that it is relaunching his popular Detective Chief Inspector John Blizzard series, complete with new cover for the ebook versions. The stories include The Long Dead, which was the first to be published by The Book Folks and…
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In addition to the large amount of free material on my new website, there are also details of paid-for support services for writers, including those who self-publish their books and those who wish to ensure that their manuscript is the very best it can be when it is submitted to a publisher. Indeed, a number…
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I have lost count of the times an aspiring writer, and more experienced authors for that matter, talk about those moments in the writing process when they hit a brick wall and their novel grinds to a standstill and they simply do not know where to go next. How do you get going again? Well,…
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One of my friends, a very successful crime writer, contended that every word he wrote, every place he described, every character he devised, was entirely fictional, that he did not draw on real life in any way. I disagreed with him and, although I never had the debate with him, I heard of those…
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Good things come to they who wait, according to the old adage – and that is certainly true of author Malcolm Beadle, whose debut novella has taken twenty years to come to fruition. Malcolm, known as Mally, aged 65 and from Darlington, County Durham, has written Koki, which tells the story of an American sniper…
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My website has plenty of free guidance for aspiring writers in my Handy Hints pages and one of the sections deals with sense of place. As a writer, I am always inspired by a sense of place. Whether it be a gloomy city or a stunning hillside, a glass-strewn council estate or a majestic waterfall,…
