August was a busy month!
Starting with reading, I finished The Dark Room by Lisa Gray (excellent!), The Stranger by Harlan Coben (good read), Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov (great stuff, can’t believe it took me so long to get to it) and Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin (nice and spooky). I’m currently reading Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which is excellent, as you would expect.
The Stone Veil
For fans of crime fiction, there’s a new Solomon Gray from Keith Nixon, book eleven in the series. I can tell you it’s an absolute cracker!
Here’s the blurb for The Stone Veil (from Amazon)
A body entombed in concrete, a missing cop, a bizarre death. Three investigations, one chilling mystery.
When a man’s body is found amidst the wreckage of a crashed car abandoned on a back road, Detective Inspector Solomon Gray initially believes the death to be the result of a tragic accident, the aftermath of a collision with a driver who then fled the scene. But Gray soon unravels a chilling truth: the man died before the collision.
Meanwhile, one of Gray’s colleagues, the usually dependable Desk Sergeant Dai Morgan, has disappeared. Morgan had apparently been on the brink of unraveling a decades-old cold case – the identity of a recently discovered corpse that had been buried under the concrete foundations of a farm building over twenty years ago, a case Gray had a personal connection to.
As Gray delves deeper he finds these mysteries are in fact intertwined and, amidst the darkness, one truth remains clear: someone is determined to keep the past buried at any cost.
This one is very highly recommended, a great addition to a series that is consistently excellent.
Writing and word wrangling
The good news is, I wrote 30,000 words-plus in August. However, the not-so-good news is they were all written for other people.
In addition to that, I copy-edited over 110,000 words and proofread over 40,000, so a very wordy month.
My stuff desperately needs some attention, and happily September is looking more manageable. Once I deliver a big project I’m working on, which is due in the middle of the week, I’m taking a few days off and planning to get some words added to the WIP. Wish me luck!
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