A Taste of Honey – published

On By TomIn Achievement, General, Insight, Novel, Poetry, Review, Short Stories

atasteofhoney(1)Having already produced three novels and two collections of short stories, I’ve learned that it takes several drafts and many days and months of work to produce something close to a good story. That is vital to me.

I believe that the most important thing I’ve learned has come from reviews of my work. Judging from sales figures and comments I started to appreciate where my audience wanted to be taken.

In my novel writing, I started with Ten Days in Panama (a romance-based thriller). Next I tried more action with Beyond The Law (a crime-based thriller). My third project was experimental. I aimed to tie together a travel guide and story in Amsterdam Calling (a psychological thriller).

Each of my forays into the thriller genre have led to me tackling different sub-categories and this next one is different again.

A Taste of Honey is essentially a one-woman fight against evil. The evil in question consists of more than one perpetrator, so the heroine has to stay one step ahead of the law. Anyone who has read my novels or short stories will be acquainted with my style and desire to see justice.

Honey dishes out that justice in spades.

The story is set in the USA so it is no accident that I’ve spent many hours attempting to dig out the British English and replace it with a language that our American cousins would feel more at home reading. I don’t believe the reading experience is spoiled for the British reader, but I’ve no doubt I’ll find out soon enough.

From idea to publication has taken four months, so has that time scale created any issues?

It has created issues, if I was to say that I’ve hardly been near this blog, or anybody else’s blog. I devoted my time, day and night to this story. The final version is the sixth draft although I feel sure that I could have spent more time and refined it further. There comes a point when we have to say, okay the job is done.

If you do decide to try my latest novel, please consider leaving a review. I’ve taken the precaution of giving the story the option of a sequel, but a sequel will be dependent on how Honey’s introduction goes with readers.

In 2015 I will be producing a sequel to Beyond The Law.
I am now going to catch up with some blogs before I settle down to my next story. As always, thank you for reading and remember, comments are always welcome.

10 thoughts on “A Taste of Honey – published”

    1. Hello my friend. Yes, we all get there but as you obviously appreciate it’s a fine balance between getting it right and passing it by. 🙂

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  4. W. K. Tucker

    My goodness, from idea to publication in four months! It took me over a year to write my manuscript that’s out and about, wining and dining and searching for a home. I wish I were as prolific a writer as you, my friend.
    Best of luck.

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  5. Hi Kathy and thank you for the kind comment. Yes it was four months, but before anybody thinks I scrimped on time or rushed the idea, I did nothing else. I only word three days a week in retail and most of my breaks were devoted to making notes or edtiing passages I’d printed to work on. I still managed to read and review other folk’s work and squeezed that in when I had to get my head out of the story for a day. I’ll find out soon enough if the intense method worked. 🙂

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  7. Many thanks Ramona, for the visit, comment and follow. I look forward to your opinion / review. The response of male and female readers will have a direct effect on the sequel, which is already trying to compel me to start work … and I’m sure you know that feeling. 🙂

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