TROTMH: paperback and Kobo now out
Some good news about the availability of my second book, The Return of the Mullet Hunter.
A few media pieces
The Return of the Mullet Hunter continues to sell slowly but steadily, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s bought a copy. This is the second of five free days, as well, and quite a few copies are shifting through that too. It’s all been aided by a few bits of media attention that the book…
The Return of the Mullet Hunter – free for five days
Just a quick note to say that The Return of the Mullet Hunter is now free on Kindle, for five days. That’s up until Sunday. Don’t say I’m not good to you. It’s free right across the different Amazon regions, and here for your convenience are the links to The Return of the Mullet Hunter…
The Fluid Druid
If you’ve read The Return of the Mullet Hunter, then you’ll remember that towards the end of my mullet-hunting adventures in New Zealand I visited Mullet Bay (right), near Invercargill at the south end of the South Island. I stayed in a hostel in the city, and when I left in the morning I realised…
TROTMH 7: San Francisco
This is the seventh and last in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This final extract is an account of a day’s touristing in San Francisco. The photo is of the city’s skyline, taken from the Coit Tower.…
TROTMH 6: Fresno
This is the sixth in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This penultimate extract describes an evening in the curious, almost claustrophic town of Fresno, California. The photo is of the town’s utterly out of place cinema.…
TROTMH 5: Salton Sea
This is the fifth in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This antepenultimate extract is about the harsh landscape of the Salton Sea, in the desert of southern California, which I visited in search of Mullet Island.…
TROTMH 4: South Island road trip
This is the fourth in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This fourth extract describes one of my roadtrips through the South Island – a beautiful country that had more than a few echoes of Scotland. The…
TROTMH 3: The Scots in New Zealand
This is the third in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This third extract describes my visit to Te Papa, New Zealand’s excellent national museum in Wellington, which at the time of my visit included an exhibition…
TROTMH 2: Motutapu Island
This is the second in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This second extract describes my visit to Motutapu Island, an uninhabited island off Auckland which was home to Mullet Bay, one of New Zealand’s five mullets.…
TROTMH 1: Tipping
This is the first in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This first extract is from my trip to Canada, the second country I visited in the book. In amongst the mullet hunting, I was able…
One week old, and a price cut
The Return of the Mullet Hunter has been out a week now, and I’m delighted by and grateful for some of the comments I’ve received from people. Well, all of them, in fact. It’s not like there’ve been comments about it that I’m not delighted by or grateful for. At least not ones related to…
How to become a bestselling travel author
Amazon’s a funny thing. Well, some would say something worse than funny, but I’ll stick with it for now. I’m not too ashamed to confess that since The Return of the Mullet Hunter‘s release, I’ve been watching its Amazon pages like a 3G-enabled hawk to see how sales have been doing. The highlight has been…
The quiet launch of TROTMH
Well, The Return of the Mullet Hunter is out. It’s an odd feeling, launching a book on Kindle. You just press a button, and it’s there. Well, you press quite a few buttons, faff around with various technicalities, wait a while and then it’s there. And not just “there”, but there in different Amazon sites…
The Hoja Project
I mentioned in my previous post how I am giving ten percent of my royalties from The Return of the Mullet Hunter to a Tanzanian charity called The Hoja Project. With my first book, I give a cut of royalities to my friend Kieran’s charity aidconvoy.net (with both he and it appearing in the Albanian…
Cover story
In my previous post I reflected on some of the aspects of self-publishing. Making a good cover is obviously one of the most important ones, because it is the “public face” of a book, the thing that will draw people in and catch folks’ eyes. The cover also has to tell a story in itself…
Self-publishing – a reflection
The process leading up to my (traditionally published) first book was a fascinating journey. Discussions with many people on everything from editing to marketing to the cover design, were stimulating and thought-provoking. The whole idea of having your book – from the very broad concept to the minutiae of individual sentences – subjected to such…
The (very overdue) Return of the Mullet Hunter
The Return of the Mullet Hunter comes out on Monday 2 December, as I announced the other day. But if you’ve read my first book or followed the mullet mission over the years, you’d be entitled to ask a number of questions – like why it’s only out as an ebook, why it took so…
Want a review copy of The Return of the Mullet Hunter?
One of the perils of self-publishing is that it is very hard to get conventional media attention for books. Mind you, it’s not exactly a walk in the park for conventionally published books either: it’s a busy marketplace and there are books being published in greater volume than ever before. That trend is of course…
The Return of the Mullet Hunter: out on Monday 2 December
I’m delighted to announce that my second book, The Return of the Mullet Hunter, will be published on Monday 2 December 2013. That’s just about a fortnight away! The book will be available throughout the world, initially as an Kindle ebook, and for British readers it’ll be just £3.00. You’ll find it on my Amazon page…