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Dragonfly Illusion - on YouTube

As much an experiment as anything else, I've created - with the help of AI, so sue me - an audio version of the Prologue. If you have...

Dragonfly Illusion - 1,000 words (or so)

My novel is selling! People are actually buying it! Wonderful. If you're unsure about investing your hard-earned money, here's the first...

Dragonfly Illusion - 19 Aug 2025

Big reveal next week... my debut novel, Dragonfly Illusion . I say 'debut' in the full and certain knowledge that the sequel, Dragonfly...

Dragonfly Illusion - Available Soon

Finally... I'm expecting a proof copy of my novel to arrive in a few days. If it's all tickety-boo, Dragonfly Illusion will be available...

Dragonfly Illusion

I've queried or submitted to 119 literary agents and publishers, mostly in the UK and USA. Australian companies prepared to consider...

Dragonfly Illusion / Retribution

After submitting Dragonfly Illusion to about 80 literary agents, I've noticed that the flurry of immediate rejections (about 20) has...

Dragonfly Retribution

Even before my first novel, Dragonfly Illusion , is published, I've started the sequel. The ominously sounding Dragonfly Retribution has...

Is it 2025 Already?

I let my website go offline a couple of years ago. Now it's back. So am I. My recent efforts revolve around haranguing publishers and...

4th edition? Good grief!

Nearly a decade after its first appearance, Australian Commemorative Postmarks is in its 4th edition. I hasten to add that the 2nd...

Another title to my portfolio

It’s been a long time between blog entries; some would say that’s good. My latest publishing effort is Bob – The Short Life of Robert...

Two more titles in print

Publishing can be a frustrating exercise, but more than made up for seeing a new title in print and available to (almost) the whole world...

Working on two titles at the same time!

Having published The Postage Stamps of Aden 1837-1968 in January 2020, I set about my next project. This turned into two projects, one...

What's next? Oh, that.

During the world’s COVID-19 pandemic, many writers are happily (and perhaps selfishly) taking advantage of free time to increase their...

Farewell 2019 and all that

As we say hooroo to 2019, I’m pleased to have returned to my novel Dragonfly Illusion, and have pushed out another couple of thousand...

Brave new world

My world of publishing, despite having started in 2012, was never fully realised as a business concern. I drafted a business plan ages...

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