Favourite book cover

After publishing fifteen books I thought I’d do a poll and see which is everyone’s favourite book cover. I’ve had the privilege of working with some extremely talented people over the years so it’s time for them to show their wares and take a bow for all their hard work. I will list each book…

First of many…

I was wandering around my local library looking for an action packed sci fi book to read. I had recently re-watched Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger on Blu-ray and wanted something like that to read. Sci fi had always been a favourite genre of mine every since I learned to read. The fantastical journeys these…

The role of an author.

I was asked recently what was the role of an author and at first the answer seemed obvious to me. Let’s take this in the correct context though. First off the conversation I was having was basically a questionnaire for a publisher and it was in relation to this that I was asked the question….

Back on track

For the past three weeks I’ve not had my laptop due to an ongoing repair job which I have to say was all my own fault. Note to self, never nod off with your laptop on your knee whilst holding a mug of tea, it has disaster written all over it. Well that’s what happened…

Forever and a day

On a recent trip to London I visited the Waterstones book store in Trafalgar Square where I picked up a copy of the new James Bond book, Forever and a day written by Anthony Horowitz. That sounds far grander than it was, we were on a city break on one of our allotted annual leave…

New covers, new upgrades

  Jack Dillon is my pen name for a series of books that are similar to my Col Sec series but are set in present day. In fact there are two series of books, one is the SI6 series and the other is the ATLAS Force series. The latter has three books, The Satan Strain,…

Reaching new heights as a writer

Practise makes perfect as they say and as many writers will attest, the more you write the better at it you get. When I first started writing and taking it seriously it was something I never considered, not consciously at least. What I mean by that is that I never wrote something and thought, ‘well…