Julian Nott, Jim Woodman - Flying with the Greats

This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about flying here on this blog.  Last time it was about my dreams of flight, but this time it’s flight itself.

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Night Sky/Scuffing Clouds/Craggy Rocks: Midnight Blue E-Book Update

My work on the book is coming on. My Midnight Blue twentieth anniversary e-book version, that is, not any new book, oh no. Once you develop an online presence - blogging, engaging with other people’s blogs and reading sites and, more importantly in my case, working to re-publish your first novel in electronic book form - there ends up being precious little room for orginal new writing. Once I’d be up early every day, down to my computer before I’d even rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, bits of story emerging like mountain tops from my dreams. The first writing of the day would be like the cream on top of the milk, rich and good and waiting for me every day. Nowdays though I’m more likely to be down in my filing cabinet digging out old reviews to go onto the back of the book or, if I am on my computer, answering emails, sending them out, checking Facebook, checking Twitter and then starting the process of preparing my Midnight Blue Word document to download onto Kindle...

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Electronic Book Adventure

Over the next few weeks there’ll be considerable mention on this blog of my first novel, ‘Midnight Blue’.  Considerable mention too of the whole subject of electronic books.  My current novel, ‘In The Trees’, came out as an e-book on Amazon Kindle earlier this year, published by Faber & Faber, but I’m ‘doing’ ‘Midnight Blue’ myself...

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