Hellooo… Been quite busy recently with different writery things (is that a word? Heck, I’m a writer. If I say it’s a word, it’s a word). The best and worst thing about being an indie author is that you get to do/have to do everything on your own. You can pay to get covers done, but having several art qualifications under my belt, I feel like I should be using them for something, so I’ve been doing some fresh covers for Bright Future and A Fifth Visitor. I’ve also been editing Richmond’s Roadshow Revelation ready for publication soon. Been looking into the wonderfully complicated world of Amazon advertising as well. I think I’ve got my head around it now, but it’s just a matter of having the time to do it all. Anyway, best get back to it…
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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. View all posts by John Payne
JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 