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Touchstone (3. All the Time in the World)
Baby, baby, baby… you’re out of time… Rachel, lost and alone... read more
Ghosts on the Moor
Three women spend Christmas in a remote cottage on Dartmoor to escape problems... read more
Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Touchstone (3. All the Time in the World)
Baby, baby, baby… you’re out of time… Rachel, lost and alone in 2012, travels back to 1966 to repair her lost timeline with the help of Charlie, now 50 years old but still in love with her. Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a pair of mismatched History students who stumble upon an old gravestone that catapults them back in time. The Swinging Sixties are in full flow, Birmingham is being rebuilt and England are hosting the football World …
How to get your ebook translated for foreign markets
Just over a year ago, I received an email from a French reader of one of my self-published novellas. This is one of the great things about being an indie publisher. You get random emails from people all over the world: people who have seen your book online and taken a risk on it. Not only that, they’ve liked it so much they’ve taken the trouble to write to the author. But Fabien Cathelin had something else to say. He …
Easy ebook cover design for indie authors
Contrary to popular myth, we do judge a book by its cover. But in the new ebook publishing landscape, the book cover is not entirely what we’ve always thought it was. Hopefully, this blog will give writers new to indie publishing an insight into how an ebook cover works and provide some hints and tips on how to go indie with book cover design that ends up looking like the dog’s… not the dog’s dinner. I’ve used two very talented designers …
Ghosts on the Moor
Three women spend Christmas in a remote cottage on Dartmoor to escape problems at home, but a Christmas Eve hike across the moor turns tragic as old ghosts return for vengeance… A chilling new short story (10,000-words) in the vein of Andy Conway’s other timeslip novellas Touchstone and The Very Thought of You. Buy the e-book at: and at Amazon Kindle stores in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Available soon at: Reader comments “A ghost story set …
The shot heard around the world…
City’s Hollywood moment and the best short film you’ll see all year… I’ve hesitated to mention this until now, because, well, it’s nothing to do with writing, and it’s only about the little football team I’ve supported my whole life through thick and thin… mostly thin. But there was something about what happened last Sunday that has made it more than that. Something in the astounded reactions from all over the world this week that has made me think this …
How to be a paperback writer…
When I started publishing ebooks for Kindle last year, quite a few people asked me when the paperback versions were coming out. This was obviously annoying. Why aren’t you embracing the digital ebook revolution!!? I shouted (well, thought, more than shouted). But I can’t say I’m surprised. People still cling to the feel of books, the smell of books; the notion of books as tactile pleasures. I did that my whole life before I converted to the convenience of reading …
A spooky little thing I noticed about our unconscious need for structure
I go on about structure a lot, particularly in screenwriting, but also in my prose fiction. I teach screenwriting classes at Worcester University and Birmingham City University, both at undergraduate and masters level, and with each intake I find myself giving students my take on the basics of 3-Act Structure as defined by screenwriting guru Syd Field (hear us chat about it in my podcast), or the mythological paradigm of the Hero’s Journey, from Campbell via Vogler. A lot of …
The Budapest Breakfast Club goes INTERACTIVE… and it’s FREE for 2 days!
Yes, it’s another ebook giveaway. The Budapest Breakfast Club is now available FREE to download to your Kindle for the next two days (1-2 March) . But this is not just any old e-book. The novel has been given a bit of a makeover. It’s now the INTERACTIVE SOUNDTRACK edition. It’s something I’ve been thinking of doing for a year now. A lot of my books contain musical references, so wouldn’t it be nice to hear the music as you read? …
Win a Lovers in Paris paperback for Valentine’s Day
That’s right, I’m giving away a LOVERS IN PARIS paperback to one lucky winner as a Valentine’s Day gift. All you have to do to enter is go to the Amazon page for Lovers in Paris, use the ‘Look Inside’ feature to read the first few pages and find the answer to this question: What present do Sandy’s workmates give her as she sets off on her blind date in Paris? Send the answer to mail@andyconway.net before midnight this Sunday …
Get a free blind date in Paris for the next five days
Meet Me in Montmartre, quite possibly the most romantic short story you’ll read all year, is now available FREE to download on your Kindle for the next five days. As we run up to Valentine’s Day, you won’t read a better story to get you in the mood. You’ll probably love it so much that you’ll immediately go and order a copy of Lovers in Paris, the collection of stories that Montmartre comes from. At least, that’s what I’m hoping. …
