Been working on a design for my upcoming compilation of Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles (5 short stories and a prequel). It never gets any easier to design covers it seems. You’d think being an artist and writer would make it easier, but I suppose it’s the same as the issue of writing my own blurbs: I’m too close to the work to see what the core of the story is, both visually and plot wise. I’ll get there. Sometimes it’s a case of doing a few designs and cherry picking what I like about them, then combining them to make the ideal cover. I quite like the logo for the radio station at the head of the design, so that’s a start, I suppose.
In other news, I got a random sale today of A Fifth Visitor Or How Scrooge Kept Christmas. Maybe sales will pick up as Christmas gets nearer. That’s what usually happens, but I’ve not worked on my Amazon ads for a while. Anyway, hopefully whoever bought it will drop a review when they’ve finished with it. Reviews are the indy author’s bread and butter, after all. Thanks for reading, and as always, I’ll keep you updated with my writing progress.
I write novels and short stories and draw and write cartoons. The main cartoon I'm working on at the moment is Still Life. It's about a man who sits at home on his sofa all day and yet bizarre things still happen to him. At the moment him and his sofa are stuck on a desert island. Check out Still Life Series Five: Beyond the Sofa on this site.
My debut novel is out now. It's called 'A Fifth Visitor', and it's a very unofficial sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'. The story picks up five years after the events of Dickens' classic, and we see how Scrooge is getting on with his promise to always keep Christmas. A new spirit pays him a visit and convinces Scrooge that he's not doing enough to redeem himself, so they both travel to the future to save a young nurse called Grace, but there's something big that this new spirit is keeping to himself. I'm developing a website dedicated to my writing, so watch this space. One of my short stories is available on amazon kindle. If you want to check it out, it's called 'Richmond's Rarity'. It's about a late night hospital radio DJ. I've written it under my author name of John D Payne.
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JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 