The road to publication
By the end of 2006 I had finished the first draft, and so I turned my attention to finding an agent, which after many rejections I managed to do with Tina Betts at Andrew Mann Ltd. It took another year for the book to pass through several publishing houses, who all said nice things about it, but turned it down for one reason or another, often citing the difficult economic climate, until my agents contacts were exhausted. So I kept writing while In the Blood gathered dust, and then one day I thought that after getting so far, and with so many good comments from people in the business, the book deserved to be read - if only by my friends and family. On the 16th of June, 2011, I published In the Blood as an eBook, and the paperback was released two months later. In 2013 my books were noticed by Amazon Publishing, and in March 2014 my first three titles were re-released with Thomas & Mercer - Amazon’s crime, mystery & thriller imprint, with my fourth book due for release later in the year.