books

  • There are all sorts of Christmas books in the shops right now, their covers full of snowy scenes and dazzling Christmas lights. I do love a Christmas cover. Do you have a favourite Christmas book? Perhaps it’s something modern or an older story – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens? The Nutcracker and the Mouse…

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  • After a few weeks celebrating the publication of my new book, The Storm, I thought I’d throw things over to you. What books are you working on at the moment and how are they going? If you’re not working on anything yourself, what are you currently reading? Maybe you’re doing both. I’m almost at the…

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  • It’s now a week since the paperback version of my new book of short stories came out. Thank you to everyone who has bought either the paperback or the ebook. It’s greatly appreciated and I hope you enjoy the stories. So I’m now turning my attention to relaunching my first collection of short stories, The…

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  • It’s a month since my new short story collection was launched as an e-book. I’m delighted to announce that The Storm is now available as a paperback. You can order a copy through Amazon: Amazon UK Amazon US The blurb: There’s a clash of thunder and the brilliance of lightning. Huge waves gain momentum, slopping…

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  • To celebrate the launch of my 3rd collection of short stories, The Storm, I decided to hold a short story competition. The top entry would win a copy of The Siege, my first short story collection. The results are now in. There were some great entries, which made it very difficult to choose a winner.…

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  • Today is your final chance to enter my competition! To celebrate the launch of my new book, The Storm, I’m giving away a copy of my first short story collection, The Siege, to the winner of the following short story competition: Write a story in 50 words, using the following words in it somewhere: The…

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  • Book News – Special Price

    I’ve been advised to increase the price of my two workbooks, Publication Guanteed (well, almost! and Short Story Focus. They’re currently £7.99 each for the paperbacks and the kindle price is £2.99. So if you’d like to purchase them at that price, get in now! You have a week before the price increase. And there’s…

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  • As many of you know, The Storm, my latest collection of short stories, came out on Wednesday. I’m thrilled to announce the paperback will soon follow! The launch day is Friday 1st December. And don’t forget to enter my short story competition: To celebrate the launch of The Storm, I’m giving away a copy of…

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  • Thank you to all of you who pre-ordered my new collection of short stories, The Storm. I hope you enjoy it. For those of you who haven’t pre-ordered, you can obtain a copy through Amazon: Amazon UK Amazon US Paperback news will follow soon. The blurb: There’s a clash of thunder and the brilliance of…

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  • My first collection of short stories, The Siege, came out ten years ago. The cover, as you can see, is very different to my new collection of short stories, The Storm, and A Walk in the Woods. It’s also not in the name of Chilton, so I thought it was about time I released a…

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