You will recall my struggle with Chapter 4 and its subsequent change to Chapter 5. Yes? Well, you’ll be pleased to know that Chapter 5 is coming along and, despite being busy elsewhere (work, family shenanagins, book review obligations, general loafing around, etc) will soon be here. Hoorah!!! You all exclaim. With any luck, it’ll…
“DON’T PANIC”, Lab Rats. “Don’t Panic”.
Just in case any of The Lab Rats are pondering where the next instalment of my book was, I can assure you all that it is soon to be released. “Soon” being a fairly ambiguous time frame, though. You may recall an earlier blog post where I indicated that Chapter 4 was being a pesky…
The moustache on TV.
Yesterday some of you let me know, via Twitter messages, that I had ruined your enjoyment of the FA Cup 1st Round tie between FC Halifax Town and my beloved Bradford City. I attended this match with my daughter, Bethany, and it appears the BT Sports cameras decided to show us full screen during the…
LR#19: “Our Vinnie” by Julie Shaw
As a fan of the city’s football team and living just outside the area, I had high hopes for this Bradford based book. After this brilliant debut from Julie Shaw, my expectations for the second and third in the series are higher than the town hall clock in Bradford’s Centenary Square. This was an exhilarating…
First a title….now a cover!
April 20th – I’ve rejigged it. Still, not much closer to filling the pages. It just needs all the words that go between the front and back.
My Novel. “The Kerning”
Well, I’ve got a title. And a central character. Two actually. Plus, a rough idea of where it is going. It promises to be an interesting journey. If you are intrigued by the title, this may be of interest. It is the first page (after you’ve read all the “printed by and typeset in” stuff….
Chapter 4…..Is it really needed?
After last weeks barnstorming, rip-roaring, whirling Dervish start to my novel, I’ve hit that bit where I cannot clearly see the next bit of the story. That’s right, I am ashamed to admit, but Chapter 4 (aka The Fourth Chapter) is proving to be an awkward little scamp; how do I get from A to…
The Lab Rats.
Heck. Is it only 10 days (and 30 plus years) since I decided to write the next great American novel? Doesn’t time whizz by when you’re busy? My Lab Rats will this morning be opening their inboxes and eagerly devouring the third chapter (that’s three chapters AND a prologue – so technically FOUR chapters) of…
Vibes. And positive ones at that.
Whadya know? My “Taste Test Team” have reported back with their initial views on the first two chapters of my *ahem* great novel. (Or, short story. Anyway, at worst, two chapters). We already know that you are well informed, highly educated and intelligent folk. After all, you read The Moustachioed Reader (possible name change to…
They’re a bit like buses.
Well, hot on the heels of Monday’s very first chapter, guess what loped across the finishing line yesterday. You’ve guessed it (you are very clever followers of this blog, only the best followers for The Moustachioed Reader – should that be changed to The Moustachioed Reader/Writer?) “Chapter Two” is here. A bit like buses these…
First chapter written.
I have now written the first chapter of my book. Well, I say chapter, it’s two pages long. Three pages if I cheat and increase the size of the type. It may never get to be a book; it might only progress as far as a short story. Heck, it might never get beyond one…
My Favourite Reads #2: The Sherlock Holmes Canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
My Favourite Books: #2 I was quite late to this reading malarkey; if my memory is correct, I must have been around 7 years of age before I got to grips with books and the written/read word. It must be said in my defence though, I sure have made up for the lost time! I…
My Favourite Reads #1 : “Rogue Male” by Geoffrey Household
My Favourite Books: #1 At the top of my list is the wonderful “Rogue Male” by Geoffrey Household. Written in 1939 this is a brilliant, tense and exciting thriller that evokes wonderful images of pre-war European anxieties. Our hero, an professional big game hunter wonders if he can track and line up in his sights…
John Harding – “The Girl Who Couldn’t Read”
I happened across this novel completely by chance; isn’t that the best way to find a new book? To encounter a new story and author when you least expect it and to be swept away by their story? This is a fantastic gothic horror story set in an asylum for insane women in 1890’s New…
Gavin Dimmock. Writer. 