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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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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. …
How Amazon categories can get you a movie deal
As regular readers of this blog will know, I’ve got a bit of a thing for time travel stories. It’s my guilty pleasure genre and this year I’ve been lucky enough to publish three of my own time travel titles. The Very Thought of You has had an option offer from a Hollywood producer, which is pretty amazing for an ebook novella that had only been on sale a month and sold about 25 copies when he got in touch …
11 before 11.11.11
Or How I Published 11 Books in 9 Months Was it only this March that I announced to the world that I was publishing my first ebook and there would be another ten before the end of the year? Seems like last week. When I first announced it, it wasn’t 11. I thought, hey I’ll get ten titles out before Xmas, the idea being to get a firm footprint on Kindle in time for the holiday season increase in ebook …
Touchstone Poppy Appeal
In honour of Remembrance Sunday, the proceeds from every copy sold today of Touchstone (2: Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story will be donated to the Poppy Appeal. Buy it at: Find out more about this time travel Blitz story here…
The story therapy that will rock your constellation
How can a German family relationship therapy exercise help with your story? I went along to the London Screenwriters’ Festival to find out. And boy, was I surprised at what I found. I volunteered to be a guinea pig for new story tool Constellations, when script editor Hayley McKenzie innocently asked me if I’d like to take part in one of the workshops at this weekend’s London Screenwriters’ Festival. They needed a writer who had a problem with a script. …
