Released

 Finally got around to finishing The Last Gang in Town and put it on Amazon 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B09H3L2J48

The cover is the same as the last post. 

The Last Gang in Town

 Had a bit of a break, but The Last Gang in Town is about ready to be released.

I changed the cover slightly. The Bailout was red so decided on a yellowy type colour this time. Should be a few more days to finalise then it's ready.

I mentioned before I am writing a bit on and off, well I still am. Not sure if anything will come of the current book (it's about three quarters done). There's another 2 books in my head that will have to get written at some point, but when is anyone's guess..

Book Cover

 Seemed to lose two months there. 

Anyway,

First stab at crooked spire with a bit of blood type sky for book cover. Needs redoing to get the bleed lines more accurately and cross at top. Haven't done anything like this before, but watched a few youtube videos and did it in Gimp and wasn't as hard as I thought.

Bookwise, just about to read it again a few more times to pick out any annoying typos. Also doing a bit of other writing every now and then.

The Last Gang in Town

 Nearly finished the rewrite for The Last Gang in Town. It was originally written six to seven years ago and things like Brexit and whatever have meant it needed a good rewrite. It's a police procedural but does have a bit of humour. It stems originally from a novella I wrote called DI Cliche, but that was many yeas and at least two rewrites ago.

Thinking about the cover and blurb now. As it's set it Chesterfield the cover should include the crooked spire. Turns out I've got thousands of photos I've taken over the years but none of the spire. This one from pixabay is good.  https://pixabay.com/images/id-2397026/

Of course it needs to be darker like is the tradition for police procedurals. As for the book blurb, I'm kind of thinking about it. DI Britwell is a miserable old sod, more asthmatic than charismatic, who communicates mainly via grunts, sighs and head shakes. Yeah, something like that should do it.

Been a long time

 So it's been a while since I last posted. I decided to take a year off writing in 2016 and before I'd noticed 4 years had flown by.

With all the lockdowns and staying in and that the past year,  I have started writing again. At first I wasn't enjoying it,  then the enthusiasm, for want of a better word, came back. Anyway nearly finished a book now, but don't know if anything will come of it. I've also been rewriting the grumpy old sod DI Britwell's novel, The Last gang in town, to make it slightly less offensive to anyone and everyone. 

Anyway,  that's it. What's everyone else up to? 

The Bailout

Another freebie few days for The Bailout ebook on the Amazon. It's coming up to five years since I published it, where has that time gone ? I'm doing a paperback version in the next month or two, formatting is a bit trickier than ebook, but nearly there.

Free today and tomorrow

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bailout-Charlie-Wade-ebook/dp/B005VCFNFY/

Or if you're in the US

https://www.amazon.com/Bailout-Charlie-Wade-ebook/dp/B005VCFNFY/

Been a while

Been a while since I posted something, especially something un-allotment related. Truth is, not much has been going on. Apart from breaking the big toe, learning 3d CAD, trying to walk the dog with a crutch, coping with an overgrown allotment, making strawberry jam and failing to learn how to use Oxford commas correctly, there's little I could have blogged about.

Bookwise, I'm fiddling with a police procedural which will be called The Last Gang in Town [yet another The Clash song title used] and toying with the Flustopia series, probably about halfway through the first part of it. I've got plenty of ideas for future books, but I guess until these two are out of the way, nothing else would or should get written.

And it's summer too, and hot (at least at the moment), so there's another reason for not blogging much. Normal service, as they say, will be resumed at some point soon.

Here's a picture of the dog looking nervous at the thought of  going in shed number 3.