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Finally, after much too-ing anf fro-ing, The The Bumpkinton Tales: Volume One is available to buy on Kobo and Smashwords.

If you don't own a Kindle and curious, then why not pop on and have a peek. I am looking to get Brainstorm on too, but I need to work on the book formatting first.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me with my writing so far, I really appreciate it!

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebo...

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks to all who entered the giveaway for my paperback, The Bumpkinton Tales: Volume One.

A special congratulations to the winner, the book will be in the post today! :)

Sorry if you didn't win, but if the synopsis tickles your fancy then I hope you'll fancy picking up a copy, either in paperback or on Kindle, Kobo and Smashwords.

Thanks again for everybody who entered! :)

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bumpkinton-T...

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebo...

Thanks again! :)

Well, first of all, I’d like to say a big thank you for all of you who voted in the Bumpkinton Photo Competition. It started off slowly and the votes were quite close for a couple of days, but then one caught fire and ran away with it. I was pleased to get six entrants, [...]
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Hurrah, #ComedyBookWeek is almost upon us and I can’t wait. My book, The Bumpkinton Tales: Volume One is part of this fantastic movement by writers of humour/comedy/bloomin’ hilarious type stuff. So, what exactly does the week entail? Well, it’s a chance for authors to get their works out there. At time of writing there are 83 books to choose from a vast number [...]
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Hi,  thank you for agreeing to be interviewed as part of #ComedyBookWeek. Hello and thank you for inviting me round. So, why don’t we start the grilling by telling us a little about you. Um … I am M T McGuire. I live in Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, with a McOther a McMini and [...]
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Hi all,

As you may have noticed it's #ComedyBookWeek, a movement by authors of humorous books to gain more visibility. Humour is a difficult genre to sell so during the week-long event I have been running an interview per day.

I have also reduced the price of the paperback, Kindle, Kobo and Smashwords copy of The Bumpkinton Tales: Volume One.

Until Saturday, the electronic version will be just £0.99/$0.99 and so on. That's 5 humorous stories for a low, low price! :)

If you'd like to join in with #CBW then you can find the book at the below link:

relinks.me/B01FMPN2SE

I'd like to thank all authors, readers and bloggers involved. It has been an amazing week so far! :)

Writing a novel is long, arduous and often infuriating. Which is probably an odd thing to say when you realise I've never released a novel.

I'm in the middle of the 3rd draft of one but I do have experience before my current WIP. I started a novel in 2011 and it still sits bereft on my laptop, waiting to breathed back into life.

It was messy and complicated and I couldn't get it to do what I wanted. So I decided to make the main character younger and I'm currently thinking of shorter stories with him in, with the novel pushed back for as long as possible.

I'm not a writer who will say it's all exciting, it's not, it's a tough thing to do and with my current work in progress, The Fantastical Gregory Shortbread, I wanted to give myself as much time as possible to get it right. Halfway through draft 3 it's still nowhere in sight of being completed, which is fine.

There are gaping holes and parts I have changed through it being a better idea, which now disjoints latter parts of the book. I am enjoying the task and scared shitless at the same time.

The novel will be the first in my Bumpkinton Tales Series, which so far consists of 5 short stories and novellas. The novel as it stands centre's on a number of characters, mostly Gregory Shortbread and Father Whitworth O'Grady, yet it rarely touches on the named character until around Chapter 12. Other than a few early chapters, he's virtually absent for 8 chapters or so.

Why did I decide to do that? Well, I have no idea. Maybe I'll work him in more earlier on once I have an idea that works. It's a process. I am hoping to release it in 2017. It could even be 2018, 3 years after my original plan of 2015.

To be honest, in 2015 it was meant to be novella length, before I changed my mind. With every draft it does take shape. I've just had to include a character I added at the end of the book who mentioned things I'd never written. Now I've just written the events mentioned at the end that never previously existed.

Crazy, eh?

I'll plough on though. Draft 4 should be where the story really pulls together and it may need another draft or two following that.

So, if you're interested in checking out what the Bumpkinton stories are all about then they#re available now from Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, Waterstones and Barnes & Noble.

Here's the Amazon link: http://relinks.me/B01FMPN2SE

The stories are humorous with a lot of heart and a touch of pathos.

For me, for now, it's back to the novel, working out just how it's all going to work. I'll figure it out, even if it takes me the rest of the year!

The Bumpkinton Tales: Volume One

It’s time to celebrate, for The Fantastical Gregory Shortbread is available from today to dazzle and entertain you!

Today, 10th March is Shortbread Day, or as it’s known in Bumpkinton: Sara Hawthorne Day.

Sara who?

You’ll see.

As you celebrate the arrival of a theatrical genius, the villagers have never heard of him, but they have heard of Sara Hawthorne.

How is she important?
And what does she mean to Amelia Goose?

And speaking of Amelia…

What the flippin’ hell has happened to her voice?

All these questions and more, such as:

Who is Gregory Shortbread?
Where did he get his red sequin jacket, and
What on earth is that hanging on the wall in the Bumpkinton Rectory?

will be answered today.

It has been three years in the writing, and I hope you all love revisiting Bumpkinton again. The thing I have loved about expanding the village into a novel is that it gives the characters a chance to breathe.

To me, a novel helps to make characters more three-dimensional. We get into the minds of Father Whitworth O’Grady, Amelia Goose, Marjorie Fairfax and Father Harrison Stawker more than ever before.

We see how Amelia sees the world. Is she as bad as she’s been made out to be? Or is the rest of the village the problem?

You’ll also meet the much mentioned but never before seen Farmer Paterson.

Oh, and I’ll answer a secret that Chief Inspector Bertram Elderflower has been hiding in plain sight, but nobody in the village has been remotely aware of.

Intrigued?

I hope so.

Pick up your copy today and celebrate with a bit of Parsley!

Parsley? What?

You’ll see…

And stay tuned for an exciting Bumpkinton competition coming this week!

Buy The Fantastical Gregory Shortbread

Until next time,

Matthew