DIVE a totally gripping, breathlessly twisty crime mystery

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Joffe Books, Jon Barton and I would like to say a very big THANK YOU to everyone who helped with the launch of DIVE. Her punishment is to be side-lined to the Marine Policing Unit, or ‘frogmen’, whose main aim is to dredge up dead bodies from the Thames and pass them on to the ‘real’ police. To put that into perspective, that’s the same as 13 months, or 416 days, or a serious tele binge, if you watched the entirety of Game of Thrones 145 times - all 70 hours and 14 minutes of it.

I’m under no illusion, that the problems I encountered are indicative of wider problems in the publishing industry. Then they uncover something that will threaten to blow the case apart — if it doesn’t get them killed first . My side hustle starting out was pulling pints at the Captain Kidd, next to the Marine Police in Wapping. I’ve observed that people, no matter who they are, tend to avoid sharing their work because the cost benefit favours the risk of ridicule. Then they uncover something that will threaten to blow the case apart — if it doesn't get them killed first .It's worth doing a deeper dive on the landscape of public development money, and I'll be publishing more detailed thoughts about that on my blog tomorrow, but you can catch up with my first by heading to - https://lnkd. When you know you’ve written the best book you’re capable of, and people still don’t like it – that can take some getting used to.

A consumer is denied the chance to purchase the product because the supplier is gatekeeping the process. The Kickstarter for BLOCKBUSTER BOYS launched earlier this week to a very positive response, and I'll be boosting here regularly throughout the campaign. Commissioning editor Emma Grundy Haigh acquired world English and audiobook rights from Justin Nash at Kate Nash Literary Agency. There were definitely some publishers that said they wanted something more conventionally commercial. His plays have toured the UK and played at London venues including Almeida and Old Vic, and his TV credits include episodes of Holby City.Under his guidance, our titles have picked up numerous awards – including the prestigious Boardman Tasker Prize, the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival and the TGO Book of the Year award. John is a keen rock climber and mountain biker and is author of the award-winning Peak District Bouldering.

I try to remember what is in my control, and ultimately, the only thing I have true sway over is the quality of the written word.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The very next day, I terminated my agency agreement and informed the publisher, because they breached their own contract, a new one should be necessary. I’ll be recording some podcasts with Chloe Timms and Yvonne Battle Felton, and I hope to attend one of the book festivals like Crimefest or Harrogate. The actual marketing activity consisted of a handful of tweets, and Dive didn’t feature in newsletters or front-facing online activity.

It was necessary for the story to function, but it also meant I could part from the reality of the real marine police when needed. What’s true is you can explore the characters mindset and psyche on the page, and it’s very liberating to do that. When his daughter disappears and bodies surface in the river matching her description, workaholic diver David Cade and disgraced detective Naomi Harding join forces to uncover a sinister crime that will change the course of everything. When an agent backs a publisher’s interest harder than that of the client, you know it’s time to go. While I’ve had nice responses in reviews on GoodReads and Netgalley, I’ve also had blank stares and muted reactions.Because there’s a lot yet to say about my relationship with the publisher and where the wheels came off. It’s the literal difference between people giving the book a chance at first glance, or dismissing it as a generic Lee Child clone. Dive’ was a screenplay before it became a novel, and I spent six months writing that before I thought of it in another form. I wrote without knowing what I was doing, relying on instinct, trusting the first draft would brute-force its way into being.