Wilkie Martin - Surviving Publication

We're run an audit on my blog posts, have removed a lot of old posts and kept those related to my books, writing and interviews. We have also reviewed and slightly updated some before transferr...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2020/02/blog-moving.html

Corinium Radio, the community station for Cirencester, invited me to an interview with Dr Rona Laycock on The Writer's Room for one of its February 2019 programmes. We talked about the Inspec...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2019/02/talking-about-razor.html

A couple of months after Inspector Hobbes and the Bones was published, I spoke to Rona Laycock in The Writers Room on Corinium Radio (our local radio station). I give a couple of short readings f...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2018/02/talking-about-hobbes.html

Books 3 and 4 of my Unhuman series of comedy cozy mystery fantasies are now available in audiobook: INSPECTOR HOBBES AND THE GOLD DIGGERS (UNHUMAN III), and INSPECTOR HOBBES AND THE BONES (UNHUMA...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2018/01/the-unhuman-story-continues-read-by-tim.html

A short while ago I met with my friend, fellow writer and musician, Nicholas John, to record an interview based around my Unhuman series of novels. The recording is now available on Nick's webs...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2018/01/inspiration-for-unhuman-inspector-hobbes.html

I'm very excited to report that audiobooks have been recorded for all the Unhuman Series, and that the first two, INSPECTOR HOBBES AND THE BLOOD (UNHUMAN I), and INSPECTOR HOBBES AND THE CURSE (...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2017/11/new-release-in-audiobooks-of-comedy.html

Like many people, I tend to read a selection of reviews before deciding whether to buy a product or a book. Also, like many people, I actually write reviews infrequently, and I write fewer no...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2017/07/how-to-write-book-review.html

Certain trouble lies ahead for Andy Caplet. Is the apparently charming young woman who attempts to seduce him merely setting him up for blackmail, or is something even more sinister afoot? Inspe...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2017/03/booktrailers-for-cozymystery-inspector.html

Writers in the Brewery invited me to speak at its February meeting at New Brewery Arts in Cirencester, and I was lucky that fellow local author Richard Hensley (a writer of epic science fict...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2017/03/talking-names-from-inspector-hobbes-and.html

BOOK TRAILER This morning was spent reading a few extracts of Inspector Hobbes and the Bones. This will be published tomorrow. I recorded 5 extracts, the first one is now available to give a ...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2016/12/first-booktrailer-for-cozymystery.html

I’m delighted my unhuman series of books has new covers for both the paperback and ebooks. I do, though, have a soft spot for the old ones as the designs of these incorporated some photographs...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2015/05/excited-to-have-new-covers-for-my.html

I am feeling very lucky to now have some biblets (or widgets) from Book2Look (http://book2look.com/ ) that allow the opening chapters of all three of my books to be read and shared, including...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2014/09/read-free-book-samples-of-humorous.html

When someone said that Inspector Hobbes and the Blood, the title of my first book in the unhuman series of fast-paced, comedy crime fantasies, sounds rather gruesome I thought it was time for som...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2013/10/whats-in-blood_7.html

I enjoyed my brief appearance on Corinium Radio talking about some of the inspiration for my novel Inspector Hobbes and the Blood (published on 26 July 2013). Here is a little more background on...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2013/07/blog-alan-titchmarch-was-my-inspiration.html

THE FATAL FUNERAL OF UNCLE RAY Here is my latest nonsense poem, The Fatal Funeral of Uncle Ray, which I hope you enjoy. I had the following lines going round and round in my head insisting on ...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2012/02/new-nonsense-poem.html

I've put 5 short poems onto Youtube but there will be a short break before I put up anymore. This posting gives the procedure used to create and upload the videos, so I know how I did it when I ...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2011/05/short-funny-rhyming-poems-on-youtube.html

The Festival of Writing (#festivalwriting) happened at York University over the weekend of 9 -11 April 2010 and I was there. So were about four hundred other writers, literary agents, publishers ...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2010/04/ducks-geese-and-writing.html

Authonomy.com announced a competition, run by Harper-Collins and Act on CO2, to write a short story or fairytale to help educate people about climate change and encouraging them to take responsib...

http://blog.wilkiemartin.com/2010/01/all-in-same-boat-why-i-wrote-fairy-tale.html