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To celebrate the release of ‘The Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles’, this weekend, I’m making the first two stories free on kindle.
Author: John Payne
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.
It’s Finally Done
I’ve finally finished publishing The Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles. It’s now available on amazon in paperback. There’s a pic of the proof copy below. I will release a kindle version soon, but I need a bit of a lie down now.
It’s All Covered
It’s been a crazy few days of trying to get the paperback cover uploaded to amazon kdp. When I’ve converted it to a pdf, it’s been adding a massive white space (thanks, but no thanks). I finally managed to sort it by pasting the original jpg into a word document of exactly the same size and then saving it as a pdf. Here’s a print of what the front and back cover will look like. It’s been a hard slog, but hopefully worth it.
Cover Up
Work’s going well on the paperback cover for The Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles. I’ve done the front cover and I’m pretty happy with it. Hopefully Amazon will feel the same. I decided to ditch the cheesy smile and cover it with a banner thing, and I think it works. Check out my progress below.
Headers and Footers
I’ve finally got my head around headers and footers (no pun intended) so now all the different stories of the incoming Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles will have their names on the top of the pages. It’s a small thing, but sometimes those things can make all the difference. I’m almost ready to upload the manuscript, and then it’ll just be a matter of making/designing the front and back cover, and the spine. Nearly there…
