Finally!

4th June 2012

Today is the day! Within the next hour “Liverpool” will be available to purchase in either paperback or Kindle formats from several websites. Paperback version is a little pricier than I would like, but there are a lot  of pages in there! It’s a little late, but I got there in the end! Over the next few days I shall be making individual stories from the new collection available in Kindle format only at lower prices, though it would obviously be much more cost effective to buy the whole collection in one go! Links as follows:

Kindle & Paperback formats:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-White/e/B006Y7J

OUT NOW!!!

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Lulu paperback format:  http://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-white/liverpool/paperback/product-20166868.html  
Smashwords (Various E-Reader formats) :   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/168641

(The Lulu and Amazon paperback formats are slightly different sizes, hence the different page count.)

Enjoy!

Paul McCartney’s Coat and Other Stories now available in Paperback from Amazon!

Great news – as per the main site page, I am pleased (slightly chuffed, over the moon etc etc) to announce that as of yesterday, “Paul McCartney’s Coat and Other Stories” is now available in Paperback from Amazon! Retail is a highly reasonable £6.99 – link follows:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-McCartneys-Coat-Other-Stories/dp/147520146X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

Editing, Editing, Editing… (And The Road From Ballylaneen to Skellig Michael).

I’ve begun to realise that editing 85,000 words is a somewhat laborious task! Luckily I have one of the best copy editors in the business beavering away on it too. (And no, she’s mine, I tell you!!! (A bit concerned about footpaths than she should be, but there you go!)  Anyway, I’ve taken time out and do you know, sometimes things come from the unlikeliest places… which leads me to a one off I’ve written, called “The Road From Ballylaneen to Skellig Michael”. The odd thing? I think it may just possibly be a children’s story…

(Blimey! What have I done?) It’s about 8000 words long and I think I’ll just say that it’s “For kids of all ages” and leave it at that! Cover below!

Liverpool!

Good news – the new short story collection called, “Liverpool” is finally ready! Second editing is under way so please watch this space for release  details. I’m currently estimating about a month.

Liverpool Short Story Collection Update

Good news!

The work on the new collection of short stories, collectively titled, “Liverpool” should be available in May. At this minute in time I am unsure of the exact date as I want to get it just right before I launch.  Plus once I’m happy with the book I need to sort out publicity stuff, paperback prints etc.

A few things are sorted out already, however, including the cover (which you can have a butchers at below) and the actual stories inside. Word count is still a little vague, but I figure we are looking in the region of 85,000 words, which will be the biggest book I have released yet! As a taster, here are the titles contained in the book, though the running order may change a little.

1. Bob the balloon, Al Capone and the two bob bouncer

2. Nec Aspera Terrent

3. The strange case of the toff’s policeman and the curious elm

4. A good day at the office

5. The history detectives

6. The order of Pan

7. The lipstick girls

8. The last bomb, Aloise’s cafe’ and death by cow

9. The ghost next door

10. A large sweet tea, please

11. A place in the clouds.

These are all written, and I as I post this I am just finishing number 11. So watch this space! Oh… and here’s the cover. Pretty groovy, eh?

Another Update!

Moving with the principle that “It never rains but it pours” I thought I’d give a quick update where I am up to with various scribblings I am working on at the moment.

The next short story collection is going to be called, “Liverpool” as curiously, that is where all of the stories are set! So far I have three stories done for it, and all in all it will probably be about ten in total, and probably have about the same word count as, “Paul McCartney’s Coat and Other Stories” which is around 60,000 words or so. So far the stories completed are, “A Mantra”, “A Good Day at the Office” and “The lipstick Girls”. I should have another one proofed soon called, “Collateral Damage”.  I think that may be around 10,000 words or so. The next one I hope to have done by the weekend has the rather cool title of, “Bob the Balloon, Al Capone and the Two Bob Bouncer.” Neat, uh?

Finishing time for the overall book I’m not sure about but probably late May. After that I have a few ideas but as I’m concentrating on “Liverpool”  at the moment I’ll leave that for a later post.

More updates soon!

New Stuff, Promotions and Where the Hell Have You Been???

Hmmmm… I really must update this more often! (Ahem!)

Anyway. New stuff now on Amazon (Free for three days) is a bit of an odd one. It looks like fantasy – even smells like it! But it isn’t! Blurb: “A new short story from the increasingly difficult to categorise list of titles by Michael White. PLEASE NOTE: This is most definitely not a traditional fantasy story, and is most definitely not for people who bought “Bored of the Rings” expecting it to be about hobbits…. you have been warned!

It is probably best to also say that no dragons were harmed during the writing of this story, and that it contains no swear words, sex scenes or alcohol. It does make frequent use of be-headings, sudden human incineration etc etc.
It’s all got something to do with gold, apparently…” You can probably tell by the picture here that this is just going to be just as weird as all the other ones! Links are below for both UK and US. If you have time tell me what you think! That’s all for now!(Oh  - by the way – it goes by the rather snappy (!)  title of, “The Dark Knight Rizan the Destroyer, the Lair of the Ice Wyrm Vandrakarn and the Strange Incident on the Ninth Level of the Dungeon of Tharg” Enjoy!

US:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007BEZ9XG
UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007BEZ9XG