{"id":3264,"date":"2022-09-29T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaswatkinson.com\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2022-10-03T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:39:13","slug":"ive-been-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/post\/ive-been-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Been Busy…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I inherited some money from an old friend, someone who wouldn’t have wanted me to stick it in the family pot and watch it disappear into thin air. So, I decided to ‘do something’ with it…<\/p>\n

That ‘something’ was to revamp all my novels. \u00a0Under the careful eye of Quartermain Press I asked Spiffing Covers to design new jackets, a new website and set me on the road to proper marketing. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve made recently and this is the result:<\/p>\n

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Spiffing Covers are true pros with human faces and one of the main things they’ve taught me is the difference between a book jacket and a BOOK JACKET! Yes, however creative you try to be with a book cover unless you’re a real designer you will struggle.<\/p>\n

Now back to the title of this piece, I’ve Been Busy…<\/p>\n

Along with the first five Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries there is a new one called\u00a0White Crane. <\/em><\/p>\n

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It sees Hawk, witty as ever, \u00a0up against his usual array of eccentric suspects and finally travelling to China. I don’t need to add that he gets his man.<\/p>\n

And there’s also a standalone novel about ‘family’. It’s a minefield of a word. It can mean a happy, jolly unit or … the opposite, \u00a0pure hell. So, in\u00a0The Occasional Jonas Kemble<\/em> try being Marcus Lawlor for a day and ask yourself \u00a0“How far you would I go to protect my family. No distance at all? Halfway? All the way?” In Marcus’s case doing nothing isn’t an option.<\/p>\n

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Spiffing Covers: enquiries@spiffingcovers.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Quartermain Press: info@quartermainpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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