I had some amazing news this morning – If I Die Before I Wake has been longlisted for a major award.
The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) awards ten Dagger awards each year, and my debut novel has been longlisted in the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger category, for thrillers. Continue reading
I’ve had a quieter few weeks cracking on with book two (I’m 25% through the first draft!) so it was lovely to get out to chat about If I Die Before I Wake again this week.
I did an event as part of The Bath Festival with fellow debut authors Guy Gunaratne and Kim Sherwood and we had a great evening discussing our roads to publication, our writing processes, inspirations and everything else in between.
World Book Night is coming up at the end of this month and I am thrilled to be taking part.
I will be appearing alongside Joff Winterhart and Yasmeen Ismail at Bristol Central Library on April 23.
Thank you to everyone who has bought and read If I Die Before I Wake and made my publishers think I’m worth investing in… they’ve just bought my next two books!
Now I’ve just got to write them.
How do you go about researching for a novel?
If you’re interested in hearing about how I researched If I Die Before I Wake – and what my top tips are for researching – come along to a talk I am giving as part of Novel Nights in Bristol in July.
I’m delighted to announce that I will be appearing at The Bath Festival in May to talk about If I Die Before I Wake.
Joining me will be debut novelists Kim Sherwood (author of Testament) and Guy Gunaratne (author of In Our Mad And Furious City).
I just received these beautiful copies of the Dutch translation of If I Die Before I Wake.
Als ik doodga voor ik opsta is out now – available to buy here.
Doesn’t it look great?
Life is quietening down a little a month after publication of If I Die Before I Wake, but there’s still plenty of good stuff going on.
At the end of last week I went on air with BBC Radio Jersey to chat about the book – with a little help from Jersey library they have chosen it for their book club this month. Have a listen to that interview here – from about 1hr 32mins.
Then there was a lovely surprise as Jeff Noon reviewed If I Die Before I Wake for The Spectator. He really seemed to get what I was trying to do with the novel.
“In the darkness of the stilled body, this is a novel which glows with life.”
Jeff Noon, The Spectator
In other news, a “collectible” version of the book has appeared for sale on Amazon – a signed first edition for £30. As I told all of you who bought a copy at my launch – they’ll be valuable one day! Ha!
I woke up to the first day of February and some amazing news – If I Die Before I Wake was an Amazon bestseller!
With a great deal running at the moment – the e-book is 99p on Amazon – the sales of the book have had a really good week, and it peaked at number four in the Amazon fiction chart. It was also number one in the Kindle crime thrillers chart for a while.
Isis Publishing – who recorded my audiobook with Finlay Robertson reading as Alex – interviewed me to celebrate its release.
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