GHOST IN THE MACHINE published


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I’ve finally finished it.  GHOST IN THE MACHINE is now on the Amazon Kindle Store.  Visit http://amzn.to/IoEQBg to buy it, or even just preview it.
To say I’m …

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Done and dusted


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So that’s it – finally finished GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Two months of writing, two months of editing from my editors then a few weeks of me finalising.
Got some …

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Ghost final draft


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I’ve got two editors (my dad and my girlfriend, but they are pretty aggressive and honest) and I’ve had them doing a proof read. I’m just finishing off the …

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WordPress


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My blog was down for a week or so due to an admin error. Fortunately it’s back up. The post from yesterday was actually from two weeks ago …

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Whisky in the jar


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Spent yesterday researching a short story idea for a competition to support Bloody Scotland, a tartan noir crime writing festival.
While the limit is 3,000 words I think I’ve come up …

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Draft 5g


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So that’s me finished draft 5g of “Ghost in the Machine”, the penultimate one. I’m just printing it out now to give to my girlfriend to proofread. I …

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Ghost update


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So …
Not quite ready for 14-Feb then…
I’m at 75% just now of the latest draft which has been a fine tooth comb edit.
I’m not going to rush things and set …

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Ghost in the Machine cover


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I’m going to publish “Ghost in the Machine” by the 14th February 2012, but here is an advance of the book cover:

It was created in GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) from a …

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Draft five


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Three years ago to the day, I started writing Ghost in the Machine.
Funnily enough, I’d picked up the hardback of Iain M Banks’ The Algebraist, only to discover on the …

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Even braver newer world


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Bloody hell, I can’t make my mind up.
I spent a month turning Ghost in the Machine into a novella (at a plot level) and kind of burnt out with it …

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