Honestly, it's really hard to keep a website up to date when you've got so much other stuff going on- I can't help but hugely admire people who constantly have fresh news and material on their sites. Is this yet another apology for me being slack? I guess so. (Sigh) I'll try harder, I promise.

My blog site

Yep, just like this website you'll discover that I'm just as damned useless at blogging regularly and having anything useful to say. Again, I'll try harder and add more gems of wisdom (or rants of frustration) on a more regular basis... hopefully.

You can find this genius at http://thebagwhan.wordpress.com

Ebooks are coming.

I'm fast turning into a big believer in the Ebook revolution and I'm working hard at turning all my books, both those previously published and a few new ones, into EBooks that you can download. Some will be available for free- yes, FREE! Free Ebooks! (Baiting the search engines here) Hey, I'll admit it'll be a blatant and obvious marketing exercise where new readers of the free books will be so incredibly, awesomely impressed with my writing that they'll buy the other books.... Right now, I'm not sure how I'll distribute and sell them- Amazon and Kindle are looking the easiest for me, but I'll also provide non-Kindle versions, too. I need to research this side of things a little more.

 

My new novel for Weltbild publishers in Germany is due out in October 2010. It's be fantastic, if it was available in Australia too, but those things just aren't falling into place and it's almost impossible to explain why except to say that publishing is a crazy, strange business. It's another crime/thriller book with some of the characters from Missing Pieces. I never intended to start writing some kind of serialised novels with the same people in them... you know, not "another Bob the Builder Private Detective novel from Graeme Hague" kind of thing. But I did in this case want to stay faithful to my readers in Germany (of which there are many, it seems) and went down the path of using familiar characters. Next time, who knows? I can't imagine writing about the same people book after book without everyone, myself and the readers, getting a bit bored with it. Then again, some readers love that on-going story type of thing...

The novel is titled "A Clean Kill", but the German translation might change that. However, with ACK now in the bag I can turn back to finishing off some of my other projects- a new horror book for one, another WW1 story and a collection of horror stories. But before I do that, as you can see above I have a "Master Plan" to convert all my existing backlist and those new manuscripts into Ebooks for sale or free distribution.

I'll once again take this opportunity to thank all those German readers who are making Missing Pieces a success. I'm hoping to arrange to post some news here in German- by asking someone to translate, I mean.

And, as I promised, I'm going to pull my finger out with the blogging thing. Wish me luck!

Keep reading,

Graeme Hague July 2010

Hello? Hi! How are you? Thanks! About your email... and all the rest of those "spam" greetings.

It sucks, but there’s been so many nasty viruses spread around using these kind of innocuous subject lines (and I’ve been well and truly buggered by a few- it makes you wild) that I can no longer risk opening any emails with this sort of subject. If you’ve written recently and not been clear it’s a genuine letter, I probably deleted it straight away. Please, if you’d like to drop me a line to mail@graemehague.com.au put something in the subject line, maybe the title of one of my books, that makes it clear your email comes from a real person. Anything unique or spontaneous will do.