Figuring out in my muddled mind exactly what inspired the character Carl Logan, the main protagonist of the Enemy series, is quite challenging now. Back when I first started writing, about 6 years ago, I just wanted to prove that I could do it. I’d set myself the challenge of writing a novel. I’d betted my wife I would and I didn’t want to fail. So much has happened over those 6 years that it’s now quite difficult to pinpoint exactly where the plots and the characters all evo

All of my novels have a big emphasis on action. It follows directly from the types of books that I love to read and the movies that I watch. The key to action scenes, obviously, is to make them dramatic! Sounds simple, but there’s a bit more to it than that. A really good piece of writing advice that I heard is “write the slow stuff fast and the fast stuff slow”. It’s a great way of thinking. Action scenes are by their very nature supposed to be fast and frenetic. But don’t r

What is Bookbub? For anyone not familiar, Bookbub is the most well-regarded of the plethora of price promotion websites that are now available to authors to help promote price discounts. As a self-published author, one of the questions I get asked most is how do you go about marketing and promoting your books? The answer is wide and varied. I’ve tried just about everything I could think of from social media, to blogs, to festivals, to paid adverts, to traditional marketing, t