David Carter's Blog

Hi Everyone,

Long time no see - just a quick shout out to let you know that my new book "The Inconvenient Unborn" is out this week.

You can read loads about it and watch the booktrailer on my website at www.davidcarterbooks.co.uk

The video is also on youtube if you prefer to go there.

I am still trying to add the page to my site here on Goodreads, but it aint easy!!!!

Not sure why that is.

If anyone would like a PDF review copy then just drop me a line and it shall be yours.

As ever, thanks for reading,

David Carter.

Hello chums!!!

In case you didn't catch it I am now running a giveaway promotion with 10 copies of my new novella to be given away to the draw winners.

You can catch that here:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...


Thanks for adding your name, if you do,

best wishes,
David C

Today I’m writing a few words about my new short book that is out this month.

It’s called “Down into the Darkness” and is much shorter than most of my books, clocking in at around 140 pages, but some people have liked the fact that it’s a short and snappy read. Let’s face it, we don’t all have the time or want to read 700 page marathons every time we start something new.

“Down into the Darkness” follows the fortunes of thirty-something Tony Jenks. He lives alone in a small flat in an old Edwardian building that he shares with three other flats. All the other apartments are occupied by a weird bunch of people with a weird bunch of problems, but Tony’s happy enough to stay there for he has a decent job, and no mortgage, and believes he is as free as it is possible to be.

Then one night while in bed, alone as usual, he hears noises the likes of which he has never heard before, and Tony’s journey down into the darkness has begun.

The book has been described as “intelligent horror”, though I did not set out to write a horror story, and I am still not sure that it is, but as Graham Greene used to say, “I have to read what the critics write before I ever really understand what my books are all about”, or words to that effect, and I’ll go along with that.

“Down into the Darkness” is out now as an ebook and in paperback and you can buy the ebook for less than a cup of high street coffee.

You can watch the book trailer here:

https://youtu.be/JYRj3WKxF90

You can look at the SEARCH INSIDE feature and read a couple of chapters on Amazon here:

Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Down-into-Darkn...


Amazon.co.uk.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/15...


And lastly, you can read more about the book and read reviews on my website site here:

http://www.davidcarterbooks.co.uk


Thanks for reading my stuff wherever you may be, and thanks to Goodreads too for giving me this opportunity to talk about my books, and I hope you liked what you read.

Best wishes to everyone with all your ventures, from Christchurch, England,

David Carter.

Here’s a tale that will gladden the heart of all struggling writers everywhere, and indeed small publishers too.

Eimear McBride wrote a book called “A Girl is a Half Formed Thing” and sent it off to nine publishers and, guess what, it was turned down every single time.

Then a small independent publisher from Norwich, Galley Beggar Press, took on the book and published it. Sales were small but steady, but when the book recently won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction suddenly the book began selling in the thousands!

And guess what, Galley Beggar Press began receiving manuscripts in the thousands too!

So it just goes to show, the big publishers don’t always get it right, they don’t always spot the successful books from their piles of manuscripts, and it gives hope and encouragement to the thousands of writers out there who dream of emulating Eimear’s success.

Keep at it! has to be the mantra, and who knows, good things do happen, sometimes.

Big congrats to Eimear, and to the publishers who had the bottle and forethought to give it a go in the first place.

Galley Beggar Press are still open for submissions by the way, - why not check out their website: http://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/

Well done to all concerned!


www.davidcarterbooks.co.uk

Hay-on-Wye is a small town on the Welsh-English border.

Population: around 1,500.

Number of bookshops: 23.

Number of residents per bookshop: around 65 - which must be something of a world record, and now of course the little town is world famous for its bookshops and literary festival.

Read more and see more about Hay on my blog at:

http://www.davidcarterbooks.co.uk/blo...

Walter Darriteau in Nantwich!

Well, not literally perhaps, as Walter is my fictional detective, but you will now find the Walter Darriteau murder mysteries, “The Sound of Sirens” and “The Murder Diaries – Seven Times Over” on sale in the Nantwich Bookshop at 46 High Street, Nantwich, Cheshire.

And if you haven’t yet visited Chester and Nantwich then I am sure you would like to, for both are ancient places with so much interesting architecture and history.

Check out the Crown Hotel in Nantwich for example, an old pub/hotel that has been there since the year 1583 where they do a mean pint of bitter and a comfortable bed, and do call in at the independent bookshop too while you are in the town where you will find lots of interesting things to read.

Happy reading,

David Carter.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20646681-the-sound-of-sirens?from_search=true
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12828203-the-murder-diaries---seven-times-over?ac=1

A big thank you to all the 1,222 people worldwide who entered my free giveaway for 10 copies of my latest book "The Sound of Sirens".

Sorry I didn't have more copies to send out, but all the 10 have now been dispatched and I hope that everyone has by now received their copies.

I will certainly be running more giveaways in the future, so keep an eye out for that.

Happy reading folks,

David Carter.


www.davidcarterbooks.co.uk