Time flies, doesn’t it?

It only seems like two minutes ago that I was taking a quick break following completion of The Synapse Sequence, and now a few years have passed.

Creativity, unfortunately, isn’t a straight line process and just because you’ve been traditionally published once doesn’t mean you’ll get that chance again. I don’t mind admitting being creatively exhausted after finishing The Synapse Sequence (much of which was written whilst also editing Empire of Time, and promoting New Pompeii..as well as doing a full-time job, which took priority!). So I took a long break, and then I had a few decent ideas that burned out after 5 – 10k of words (with a finished novel being more like 90k).

The book I did finish, a cold war thriller set in the 1960s, was unfortunately rejected by my previous publisher (not unexpectedly, given it wasn’t science fiction or fantasy) and didn’t attract any attention from other publishers. It was on submission a long time…and so, after much dithering, I’ve decided to self-publish it. I’m expecting to get it out in August.

It’s called The Calculations of Rational Men. I’ve set-up a Goodreads page with the blurb here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

And I’m also on with something new! Whether it burns out at 10k, makes it all the way to 90k – or is finished but fails to attract any interest - remains to be seen!

Cheers!