Normal service – again (I hope)

Okay, well hopefully normal service on this blog can be resumed. I can only assume there’s been an attack of gremlins on Blogger recently and that all the technical problems have been largely resolved. For a free bit of kit you can’t really complain – but blogging does lose its incentive when it takes so bloody long and you have a thousand words to write on your new book…

And so to the blog entry that should have also read…

“Debut a Debut”
I came across this competition while surfing the ‘net for reviews on The Secret War. It looks really interesting and has support from the web-reading community. From the standpoint of a debut writer, I am very happy that The Secret War has been put forward on the list; it’s great publicity for me - it’s great publicity for all new writers.
It’s also another link between the recently published and the unpublished, who – as one commentator rightly pointed out on Iswriter’s blog – are only separated by a few steps further forward.
Hopefully the competition can bring something positive from all the corners of the writing process, from writer to publisher, maybe even to bookseller…

Note: Macmillan New Writing are also supporting the competition by putting up a copy of my book as one of the prizes, so if you get a chance, drop into West of Mars and give a new writer a go…