Farewell, Jack...

Jack Scott has decided to terminate his blog - which sounds a bit... terminal? Point is, he never did have much to say and, as I advised him at the beginning, he's now leaving it up to me. Putting the writing in the capable hands of the writer... Yes indeed...

Robert Hale e-books

I've already announced this on my web site, but here's a repeat. 


Deathly Suspense, the fourth Jack Scott mystery, is being published as an e-book by Robert Hale in July next year.


Still working on the seventh. Hope to have it ready by... oh... end of February? And possibly published before the close of 2012.


Goodness, doesn't time fly?


More soon.

Sincere Thanks

Well, I don't know if it's Christmas making everybody giddy, but my books have taken off on line. So, sincere thanks to everybody who has bought a copy of any of those three early Jack Scott mysteries - and if you enjoyed the characters, and the plots, do let your friends know.


I'm always stressing that I love writing non-violent crime books (is that possible?) with a dash of humour without forcing it. If other people like reading them, then I guess that's a winning formula.


Violence, in gruesome detail - well, who needs it?


I think I'll toddle off to have a little something out of a bottle to celebrate...! 

Looking Good

Thanks are due to all of you out there. The Jack Scott books are selling well on Kindle, which is indeed heartening. Still don't know when the next (the fourth in the series) will be available for publication as an e-book, but as soon as it is it will be up there with the other three. In case you're wondering, the title is Deathly Suspense. And if you're really impatient, well, the hardback edition is still available from Amazon or Robert Hale.


Just sent off the latest Western - The Hanging of Red Cavanagh - so now it's full steam ahead on the 7th Jack Scott.


Talk soon.

Oops

Just looked back down my posts, and I see I've put my books out of order. They go like this: Confusion of Murders (first); A Bewilderment of Crooks (second); and The Clutches of Death (third). Doesn't make much difference, I know, although a lot of people like to read books in a mystery series in the right sequence. As a matter of interest, Rock to Death is the sixth, but so far it's only available as a physical hardback from Robert Hale (and elsewhere on Amazon). A hardback large-print edition will soon be available from Ulverscroft (Thorpe).


Keep reading. 

Elation

The Kindle edition of A Confusion of Murders has been reviewed on Amazon! Wow. Somebody who bought it and downloaded it actually enjoyed it, thoroughly - and the review is five star. I'm not surprised, of course, because like most authors I believe that what I write is pretty good. Well, no, actually very good. I'll stop there, because I can feel my deerstalker getting a bit tight. And you say, what crazy sort of a mystery writer is this who sits at his laptop with a Sherlock Holmes hat on? Well, the truth is, I don't. But I'm an author, and I write fiction. Why say I could feel my head swelling, when I could paint a better word picture in a more imaginative way. Imaginative as in completely untrue.


And, as you'll have gathered by now, I'm beginning to ramble. Time for bed, I think, where I'll read the James Bond book written by Jeffery Deaver, Carte Blanche. Or perhaps an Agatha Christie. Or...


Talk to you again soon...

Reading without Kindle

If you want to read my Jack Scott mysteries without buying a Kindle e-reader, there's another way.


Log on to Amazon, and download the free programme Kindle for PC. That enables you to read the books on a PC or laptop. Once you've bought the books (£1.14 each) they are archived, which means if accidents happen and they're lost you can always download them again, free.


Have fun.