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Little snippets of news to keep you up to date with things.

"Gnome or Mr Nice Guy" has now been re-published, so you can pick up a signed copy of the Second Edition for the reduced price of just £6.00.  See the Emporium page for more.

05 August 2011

“Ready, Steady, Dig!” is runner up in this year’s Book of the Year Awards on YouWriteOn, the Arts Council sponsored website for aspiring writers.   

Not sure what that actually means in practical terms, apart from “being a winner means you can publish as a paperback and receive bookseller distribution for free on sites like Amazon for your book should you wish. If published by us already you can publish a further book for free.”  Yippee!!

“Ready, Steady, Dig!” and “Gnome or Mr Nice Guy” are now available on Kindle, at a cost of 71p each (or whatever the US dollar rate is on the day you buy).  If you don’t have Kindle, you could try downloading Amazon’s free Kindle app.

The Rooks Ridge Roman Re-enactment annual gathering was a great success this year, with more Romans getting re-enacted than ever before, even if they did have to 'phone home' sometimes.

These few images have been leaked out before 'Salve' goes to print.

"The Mice of St Goran" should be available on Amazon, and from this website, within the next six weeks.  It's a collection of short stories for children aged 4 to 10 (and adults of any age!) set in St Goran Church, Gorran Churchtown, and all profits will be going to the St Goran Church Bell Fund Appeal.

"Gnome or Mr Nice Guy" has been chosen as a set text for the summer term of the university course on writing for young people for which "Ready Steady Dig!" was a set text last autumn.

"Gnome or Mr Nice Guy" is now available at Amazon. There's a link in the Links page to take you straight to it.

Great Short Stories by YouWriteOn.Com Writers, February 2008 to October 2009, has just been published, and is now available from Amazon.  I haven't read them all myself yet, but I know there are some good stories there, especially "Fly" by Chuck Buckner, and "The Leopard" by Brian Hodgkinson.  All thirteen of us writers involved have agreed that all our royalties from the sale of the book will go to the charity "Sightsavers."

YouWriteOn is very kindly rushing through a second edition of "Ready, Steady, Dig!" following its selection as a set text by the University of Dundee. I agreed the final PDF this morning and the new version should be available from Amazon in about ten days' time. If you want to know how the new version differs from the First Edition, go to the Ready, Steady, Dig! page for details.

"Ready, Steady, Dig!", my first novel, has just been selected as a set text for the "Books, Children and Storytelling" course run by the Continuing Education Department of the University of Dundee. Wonderful. I'm so pleased.

"Gnome or Mr Nice Guy" is being published in the autumn, together with a second edition of "Ready, Steady, Dig!" with essential corrections to the Latin (eg domines as the plural of dominus ... I haven't stopped blushing since I spotted that...).