Another cover story

Yes, you're right.  It has been a while.  And while I'd love to have something exciting to report, it's actually all been terribly mundane.  Life as an author is not all one giddy social whirl, you know.  However, I do have a few nuggets of information to impart:

1. If you have nothing to say, don't say it.

It's not terribly helpful when one has a book to plug, but as I hadn't anything worth posting, I didn't.

2. The Difficult Second Novel lives!

It has revived and, what's more, I'm off to work on it in a minute so I can't hang around here chatting all day.

3. Looking for Buttons has had a facelift.

Now I'm against facelifts on principle (putting a bag over one's head is so much cheaper, and reversible).  On the other hand, marketing Looking for Buttons as a romance wasn't doing it any favours, so I'm putting the emphasis on its humourous side, with a recategorisation on Amazon and a new cover.

(A new cover, pictured sometime today.)

It's an experiment to see how these changes will affect sales, if at all.

4. And it's FREE!

To kick-start the new look, I'm holding a three-day Bank Holiday Bonanza from today until Tuesday, so get it while you can.  (Or wait until Wednesday and pay for it, that's fine by me.)

Right, that's it for now.  I've got another book to write.  Over and out.

Do your own drum roll, please

After an awful lot of staring at a screen and some Olympic-class procrastination, Looking for Buttons has finally hit the bookshelves!  Well, virtually.

Looking for Buttons - a comedy for the romantically hopeless

E-book out now: http://tinyurl.com/L4Bebook

Buttons? What buttons?

No, not those sort of buttons.  This has nothing to do with haberdashery or electronics, or even bellies.  But it has everything to do with Cinderella.

Have you ever wondered if Prince Charming is really the man for you after all?  Perhaps you just want someone kind, gentle and caring.  Someone who'll unblock your drain or jumpstart you car in the snow, someone who's seen you with no make-up and a temperature of a hundred and three and still won't run away.  Someone who's not rich, not flashy, not necessarily drop-dead gorgeous, but always one hundred per cent real.

Maybe you should be Looking For Buttons.

Looking For Buttons - a comedy for the romantically hopeless.  A new novel for 2011.