September update
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Well, summer has definitely gone!
Writing Progress
I spent a few days this month down at a friend’s house in Teignmouth, a small port in Devon. It’s a place that helps me write because just about the only thing you can hear from his living room is the wind and the seagulls. I used the mornings to write and then we went for strenuous walks in the afternoon. There are lots of hills there. In the evening, I wrote some more and then we made ourselves some dinner and set to putting the world to rights with a glass of wine or two.
Progress on the book is good in fits and starts. I can’t seem to maintain a regular schedule of thousands of words a day. I’m too easily distracted.
As I’ve mentioned in previous updates, Amanda Lloyd comes in as a second point of view character in this book. Have a read of the two snippets below and tell me what you think…
Here’s a snippet from Amanda’s PoV:
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And here’s one from Amber’s PoV:
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Translations
I’m still waiting for the final, post-edit & beta-read versions of Bite Back 8 in French "L’œil du serpent" and The Long Way Home 4 in German "Jetzt oder Nie".
The previous French translations have all been done by Bragelonne (now part of Hachette), and they did the covers, which we have to match to a reasonable level. Here is a composite of the images:
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Print versions
My apologies, it has taken me a year to get book 8 in German released as a paperback. Anyway, it’s there now.
https://www.amazon.de/dp/1912499606
I have also promised to make the novellas into paperbacks, and I will get to it. Soon. Ish.
Monthly content or short story release
For those who read my Science Fiction, you probably already know that I have a couple of short stories that will form part of book 3 of the Among The Stars series.
Whatever I do with them, they will be temporary, because they’d have to be taken down when the full book is released.
In the meantime, would you like to read them as posts on WordPress, or would you like to buy them as very short novellas on Amazon?
Other
I haven’t forgotten any of my ‘orphans’. Here’s a reminder that Bian’s Tale will continue with The Words of the Dead. This was part of an ad campaign I was working on when I shelved it.
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https://henwick.wordpress.com/2025/09...
TEXT
Well, summer has definitely gone!
Writing Progress
I spent a few days this month down at a friend’s house in Teignmouth, a small port in Devon. It’s a place that helps me write because just about the only thing you can hear from his living room is the wind and the seagulls. I used the mornings to write and then we went for strenuous walks in the afternoon. There are lots of hills there. In the evening, I wrote some more and then we made ourselves some dinner and set to putting the world to rights with a glass of wine or two.
Progress on the book is good in fits and starts. I can’t seem to maintain a regular schedule of thousands of words a day. I’m too easily distracted.
As I’ve mentioned in previous updates, Amanda Lloyd comes in as a second point of view character in this book. Have a read of the two snippets below and tell me what you think…
Here’s a snippet from Amanda’s PoV:
image
And here’s one from Amber’s PoV:
image
Translations
I’m still waiting for the final, post-edit & beta-read versions of Bite Back 8 in French "L’œil du serpent" and The Long Way Home 4 in German "Jetzt oder Nie".
The previous French translations have all been done by Bragelonne (now part of Hachette), and they did the covers, which we have to match to a reasonable level. Here is a composite of the images:
image
Print versions
My apologies, it has taken me a year to get book 8 in German released as a paperback. Anyway, it’s there now.
https://www.amazon.de/dp/1912499606
I have also promised to make the novellas into paperbacks, and I will get to it. Soon. Ish.
Monthly content or short story release
For those who read my Science Fiction, you probably already know that I have a couple of short stories that will form part of book 3 of the Among The Stars series.
Whatever I do with them, they will be temporary, because they’d have to be taken down when the full book is released.
In the meantime, would you like to read them as posts on WordPress, or would you like to buy them as very short novellas on Amazon?
Other
I haven’t forgotten any of my ‘orphans’. Here’s a reminder that Bian’s Tale will continue with The Words of the Dead. This was part of an ad campaign I was working on when I shelved it.
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