A Writer's Life
How y'all been? Busy, I hope. What have I been doing? Well, today I sent my new novel out into the world, to find representation and love. It's called 'Shadow of the Mountain', and it's a contemporary novel about love and faith, about what leads a young man from a small town in Wales to fighting a war in Afghanistan. I'm incredibly proud of it. I spent two years writing it, poured everything I had into it - and then some emotional reserves I didn't know I had besides - and the result is something I hope you, and many other future readers, will want to buy in the not too distant future. It's hard work, writing a novel. It's not something you can truly do just on weekends, around your other jobs and hobbies and social life. I mean, I know many do - many even have success doing it his way - but you do have to make sacrifices. For two years I've barely been out socialising. I've spent most of my free time bent crooked...