Jefferson Tayte in Czech language

JT goes Czech!

I received some exciting news from my publisher earlier in the month. My editor wrote to inform me that they've received an offer for the first two books in my Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery series, In the Blood and To the Grave, from Czech publisher, Mystery Press. The foreign rights deal is for world rights in the Czech language, and if everything works out okay the titles will be published in hardback within 12 months.

I'm very excited about it, and I can't wait to see my copies, particularly as they will be my first ever hardback editions - although it's a shame I won't be able to read them! Following the recent publication of In the Blood in the German language (as In der Blutlinie) this will be the second translation of my work into another language. I'll be sure to post a photo of the cover as soon as I'm able to.

Book 5 update

I've been hard at it with my next (5th) book in the series.  The word count now stands at just over 85,000 words, which, having just looked back at a blog entry I posted on 15 January, isn't bad going at all as I'd only just passed 18,000 words. I wrote the prologue last week, which I'm very pleased with. I know it might seem odd to have only just written the first pages of the book, but this time around I wanted to see how the story shaped up first. I feel it's all coming along very well, and with around 15,000 words left to write, it's nice to be able to report that the end of the first draft is in sight. There's still lots more to do, of course, but I'm looking forward to getting to the editing phase, and I'm really looking forward to being able to tell you more about.

May Facebook competition

My competition this month is to share an image of the person you think of as Jefferson Tayte while reading my books. It doesn't matter who it is or why you imagine the person as JT. As long as you're able to share a picture in the competition thread on my Facebook page, you can enter. I'll be picking the winner at random from all the entries received at the end of the month, and the winner will receive a signed paperback of his or her choice from the series. Here are some of the images already submitted:

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