It’s here

So, here’s the new novel.  As I’ve mentioned, this is one I prepared earlier because it was written before BAGMAN, the first one I put out in July last year.  The inspiration for this one was my life-long ambition to be better at the guitar.  I’d just taken up playing again after a long gap so this meant that the narrator goes through a lot of the same things that I was going through.

If I’m honest, there’s quite a lot of me in the agonies, fears, insecurities and obsessions of that central character but I hope I have a tiny bit more self-knowledge.  Writing the novel was a sort of therapy.  If you read it, you’ll see why. 

This one is a bit more serious than the first two books and also marks the conclusion of what I’ve called a kind of unofficial guitar trilogy.  I don’t think I’ll be writing about guitars again for quite a while.  And I know for certain that my next novel (due out this summer) will feature absolutely no guitars whatsoever.  It’s something completely different.  And that’s a promise.  ‘Hooray!’ I hear some of you cry.

Back soon with some more writing-related nonsense.