A Saxon King and an ancient stone are behind the name of this South London suburb
Category: Publishing a novel
With a shiny new cover by illustrator Link Choi, Effra: A Novel is now available on the Amazon Kindle store. This is a revised edition, available now for NZ$4.59.
Hooray! Today my novel became available on Amazon.com. It’s called Effra: a love story, and it’s a cracking read. Click here to go through. A fast-moving gothic fairytale, the story brings together a modern-day Fagan, a young man lost in London – and something bigger and nastier than both of them – all unified by […]
Some plot devices are so hackneyed they must never be used again. These 17 classic cliches can make your book or screenplay cringe-worthy without you knowing
In lieu of anything exciting happening to me this week, I thought I’d post the last of the Laws accidental poetry – I actually put the concept into a book proposal and sent it to some publishers. Random House sent back the standard gracious, thanks-but-no-thanks form letter; Allen & Unwin were cautiously keen before backing […]
Strolling home from breakfast along Ponsonby Road the other day I had the pleasure of bumping into my friend Bonnie Sumner – and her future Oscar-winning mother; Barbara Sumner Burstyn and her husband Thomas made a documentary called This Way of Life which has been short-listed for an Academy Award. We find out if they […]
Some good news on the fiction front! Not for me, but my friend Melissa Harrison. I think of Mel as one of my closer pals – she’s the person I’ve spoken to most about writing fiction – and she found out today that her fiction project has been accepted by a publisher. I’ve never met […]
I just got my first rejection letter from a New Zealand publisher. A while ago I finished a fiction manuscript that I’m pretty happy with – happy, considering it’s a first and self-taught attempt – and started shopping it round literary agents in the UK. It’s set in England and I’d love to have it […]