Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. I want to say thank you so every one of our 100+ backers for getting behind Blockbuster Boys over the last 4 weeks. You want to reveal character, but you can’t unless you do it through action or dialogue, which can feel clumsy and expositional.

Refreshingly, we also see the story through the eyes of Naomi, a highly skilled officer who is new to the job. Because there’s a lot yet to say about my relationship with the publisher and where the wheels came off. Naomi Harding is held accountable after three of her colleagues are killed during a raid she was leading. I try to remember what is in my control, and ultimately, the only thing I have true sway over is the quality of the written word.I’ve spent most of my adult life writing creatively in some form, and still, the editing process revealed a lot of things about how I do it – and crucially, why I do it. John is responsible for developing VP into one of the leading publishers of outdoor books in the UK.

If you liked Luther, Line of Duty, Heat, Chinatown, No Country for Old Men, Serpico, The Long Goodbye, Welcome to the Punch or The Long Good Friday, you might enjoy this. Frogman David Cade usually passes the bodies on but his new colleague Naomi Harding wants to pursue the deaths.I didn’t have the skill or the talent to reverse engineer the novels I liked and answer the important questions like: How did they do that? I also wanted to tell a story that wasn’t strictly procedural or a mystery, but something else, something people haven’t read before. Agents should pitch to the right publishers for the manuscript in question, and you put your faith in their knowledge of the market. The Kickstarter for BLOCKBUSTER BOYS launched earlier this week to a very positive response, and I'll be boosting here regularly throughout the campaign. Dive sat dormant on my laptop until July 2019, when, following Kerry Hudson’sbrilliant one-time-only Breakthrough Festival, I was encouraged to finish.

A briefcase is discovered in the same stretch of water, and suddenly the higher-ups at CID, including Naomi's rival, Detective Chief Inspector Shannon Baines, start showing an interest. The revised date was moved a second time, when later that summer (July 2022), I was sent a cover image that resembled a psychological thriller.

It’s been one of the highlights of my journey so far to meet authors online and in person – because the authors I’ve met are genuinely lovely people. A consumer is denied the chance to purchase the product because the supplier is gatekeeping the process.