Writing nowadays is just like anything else in the world. If you want to become noticed you have to regard yourself as a manufacturer of product, that product being whatever you write, whether its a short story, a novella or a full blown book. It is a product and to get that product into the…
Tag: indie author
Moving in the right direction
As a full time writer the hardest part of the process for me has always been how to market said work. I’m sure other writers have the same feeling toward this as I do, that it is a task best left to the experts. I first learned how hard it is when I first started…
New release
Jack Cross has had his life turned upside down. His wife and daughter had been killed in front of him by a member of the Hierarchy, Donald Bainbridge had been killed in an abortive attempt on the Prime Ministers life by the same group and finally SI6, the unit he worked for had been disbanded….
New kid on the block
The Death List was the first book I published under the name of Jack Dillon and it was an homage to thriller writers I had loved growing up when I first discovered the genre back in the seventies. I think the first thriller book I read that made me think I could do this as…
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,…
Reflections of a long time comic book fan.
I first started reading comic books when I was old enough to read back in the dark ages of the sixties. My first recollection of owning my very first comic book was when my Dad took me to the paper shop on the corner near where we lived, can’t remember what for but I came…
What would you do if you found out that humanity is nothing more than some higher species’ experiment?
In the first book of my new Captain Savage series I pose the question of what would happen if you found out that evolution on our home planet had a helping hand and not from the divine presence some of us have come to accept but by another species, more advanced than we could ever…
Good old fashioned action thrillers but with a twist.
When I set out to write Ronin, the first book in the Col Sec series I never envisioned it to be a series, I always thought it would be just a book that I wanted to read. By the way that is the best advice I ever received about writing and for the life of…
Exciting new addition to an already thrilling series.
It’s now May 1st and the release of Armageddon is here on the Kindle. Armageddon takes place in the aftermath of the events of The Blackstar Gambit. Col Sec is still reeling after the incident in Washington DC where thousands lost their lives by the hand of Goran Visjic the man who was determined to…
Master of Mayhem 