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Hi folks, I'm pleased to announce that my novella 'The Hotel Galileo', published by Wolfsinger Publications, will have its very own book launch party in a couple of weeks time. The details: Venue: The Torbay Bookshop, 7 Torquay Road, Paignton, Devon Time: 6pm Date: Tuesday August 4th 2009 If you are in the area on that date please feel free to come along and bring a friend or partner with you. I will be selling signed copies of the book and there will be wine and nibbles available. Everyone is most welcome!

After a long wait, copies of my novella, The Hotel Galileo, have arrived and they are all shiny and lovely. I've been waiting for this moment for a very long time and now that it's finally here, it's ... better than I ever imagined. Flicking through a copy, it's hard to remember the hard work that went into the writing of it (three drafts and countless revisions/polishes). I just feel good about it. And I haven't felt good about things for a long while. The character of Barclay Heath, the detective in the story, has been with me for years, about fifteen years in fact, as long as I've been married. (In fact, my wife is fond of saying that there have always been three people in our marriage - me, her and Barclay Heath!) This latest incarnation just feels right now, and everything else before it was just figuring him out and finding the right story and the right universe to really bring him to life. Work continues on the next Barclay Heath mystery and I'm havin...