Month: November 2014

Book Brief: Searching for Hope

Searching For Hope book cover (web)Searching for Hope
by Michael Joseph
Genre: Mystery
58,000 words

On a bitter January night, private detective Sam Carlisle steps out of a nightclub and stumbles across a severely wounded man prostrate on the freezing ground. Despite Sam’s efforts to save him, the stranger dies in his arms, uttering three small words before taking his final breath.

Help. Me. Find.

In the days that follow, the tragic encounter plays increasingly on Sam’s mind. Who was the victim? What was he trying to find? With the police investigation drawing a total blank, Sam searches for the truth himself, determined to carry out the dead man’s cryptic final request. However, following in the footsteps of a murdered man brings plenty of danger of its own.

Searching For Hope is the latest mystery featuring former undercover cop Sam Carlisle as he finds himself drawn into a perilous world of unscrupulous characters, dark secrets and a family torn apart by tragedy and betrayal.

Searching for Hope is available from Amazon.com and Amazon UK. Continue reading “Book Brief: Searching for Hope”

Does someone you know want to write a memoir?

Elderly person writing a memoirEver had a writing project just pop up and take over your life? This month I’m going to tell you about the memory book I’m working on just now­ — partly because it’s taken over my head­ — but mainly because, now I come to think of it, you might be able to make money from something similar. Or make people happy for nothing if that’s your thing.

I’m compiling and publishing a little book for the family and friends of an acquaintance who died a year or so ago. Now, with the internet age and all, this particular project has been made simple by the fact that this pal left behind several thousand fascinating and witty emails. He was a member of an email list of a couple of hundred people, who all bickered and joked and swapped news and stories on a regular basis. After the nth person said, ‘I wish I could read his emails again, they were so funny,’ I realised that we could actually do it. Continue reading “Does someone you know want to write a memoir?”

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest

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Featured Book: The Copy

The Copy by Grant BoshoffThe Copy
by Grant Boshoff
Categories: legal thriller
Available on Amazon.com and Amazon UK

The Copy tells the story of an ambitious geneticist who comes to the misguided conclusion that cloning himself will help balance his career and crumbling marriage and family life. But things take a dark turn as the two’s moral compasses diverge, resulting in one dead and the other on trial for murder.