The big day has finally arrived and my debut crime novel – A Deadly Rejection – hops up onto the digital shelf.
It’s taken a long, long time to get to this point. I first started to write the novel that turned into A Deadly Rejection about 10 years ago. It took me two years to write, flying by the seat of my pants, while working full-time as a local news reporter. I sent it out to agents (way too soon as I now know) and was crushed by their rejections, polite though they were.
Being a published writer was my dream, so I brushed myself off and wrote a second book, but I always knew I was going to come back to my debut. He’s special to me as the first full-length manuscript I ever wrote. It’s taken a long time – probably at least another two years – to unknot all the problems caused by my inexperience and pantsing, but I’m happy with the final result. Hopefully readers will be too.
So, he’s out there in the wide world on his own. I suppose this is a bit like parents taking their child to nursery for the first time!
If you see him, be kind. He’s only little!
A Deadly Rejection
How far would you go to get what you want?
Beneath the bustling, respectable exterior of the Kent town of Allensbury lies a world of corruption and greed.
When local news reporter Dan Sullivan scents a story in the local council, he begins to ask questions. But when his source dies in mysterious circumstances, Dan is implicated. He is quickly drawn into a world of lies, ambition and avarice as he fights to clear his name.
The more he digs, the more someone tries to stop the story from ever seeing the light of day.
Dan must decide what’s more important to him…the story, or his life.
You can download A Deadly Rejection to your Amazon Kindle here.