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Why Writers Need to Leave Their Desks

This week finds me sitting in the Irish countryside.

No office.

No deadlines.

No publishing dashboard open on the screen.

Just green fields, quiet roads, and the occasional sound of livestock reminding me that the world existed long before laptops and algorithms arrived.

As writers, we spend a great deal of time staring at screens.

We research.

We draft.

We edit.

We publish.

Then we check sales, reviews, rankings, and page reads.

Before long, entire weeks can pass...

Giving the Catalogue a Fresh Look

If you've visited Billy's Book Club recently, you may have noticed a few changes.

Over the past week I've been carrying out a major review of the website and my book catalogue, refreshing covers, updating series information, improving descriptions, and making sure readers can more easily discover the books that interest them.

With more than 100 titles published across a wide range of genres, maintaining a catalogue is an ongoing process. While writing new books...

Good Morning everyone,

First off I’d like to welcome my newcomers to the club, and thank you for choosing to follow me and my musings.

Next, as the headline alludes to, my latest series is now fully listed “Galleons Of Glory” has taken a wee while to put together it was all start stop for a while but then i eventually got it done. Phew! I actually thought that being an ex mariner this would be an easy enough write, but boy it was not! Constantly checking dates etc, but, it is now available for...

Good evening everyone, and if you are new to my list then welcome and thank you for following me and reading my musings.

Ok where are we in the writing stage? Well this morning i finished book 2 of the latest series titled Galleons of Glory. This is going to be a 5 book series on the Spanish Galleons from the 16-1700s and me being an ex mariner i have enjoyed all the researching prior to getting a story together for you. This series is actually a fiction series, not something i do often but...

The Spy Ring That Reached into the U.S. Navy

Some espionage stories feel distant now, almost theatrical in the way history remembers them.

Then there are cases like the Walker spy ring.

Cold.

Methodical.

Deeply damaging.

And perhaps most unsettling of all — outwardly ordinary.

For years, John Walker operated within the United States Navy while quietly passing highly classified material to Soviet intelligence. He was not hidden inside some mysterious foreign embassy, nor was he a glamorous master spy...

Good Morning all from a windy, wet and soggy Scotland! I hope wherever you are in the world the sun is shinning as it most certainly is not here.

A brief note today to say that i have listed two more titles of Rowan Blackwells epic Medieval power struggle saga. Just quickly looking through them i can say they are both good reads indeed. The silent accord and the Fractured Crown Both worth a look if you are into Political Fantasy.

Opther than that i have found my next investigative work, it is a...

Good morning everyone,

Well great news last night i finished listing the latest series from Lily Paige -Turner. It is an interconnected clean romance four book series set on the Scottish Island of Skye and i have to say I’m impressed. Mind you Lily was born and brought up on the Islands so what better a person to be writing about life there. Do check out her listing it is worth a look if you are into clean romance for sure.

Also yesterday i heard that another one of my upcoming indie authors,...

Hi All,

Just a quick note to say that the great female Author Lily Paige-Turner is back with a new book and we here are the first to know about it. The book is book No.1 from what is going to be a four book series all about Romance and living in general on the Scottish Western islands. I don’t know yet exactly what the format will be, but what was confirmed was the four book interlinked series. So, great news for the romantics among you all. I know that Scottish Island romance novels are doing...

Good afternoon one and all,

And i must say a big hello to all my new subscribers who have joined us in the last month. Thank you for trusting me to put good reading out there.

Well yes after i recovered from what ever it was that floored me i started to get caught up with my writing. Just this morning i put a finishing chapter to book 6 in the American power and secrecy series. Again this series takes a long hard look at how things were during and directly after the Cold War era. I know you...

Hi All,

Just a wee update for you all, the writing is continuing, i am about ready to release the next book, but then i thought i am off in the RV for a few days. I had two days at Loch Morar, and now two days here and back to the fray tomorrow! Mean while i have been writing or adding new subscribers to my email list, just keeping myself busy while i think out the next book!

I am tempted to write about all the miss communication that goes on in a war, there are several good cases of such just...

First off let me say hello and welcome to my new subscribers, 10 of you have joined this site in the last month and i appreciate you being part of my tribe. I hope you find the site interesting and of course along with all the other members you will start to get regular updates, BUT NO junk, I don’t do junk and I don’t pass on, or sell my supporters email addresses.

Ok, where are we? Well i have added books 3+4 to the Banking crimes of the World Series so that gives you a total of 4 books in...

Here is a sneak peek at the follow up from Gods Banker. I have just started to lay out the chapters of this new musing called The Bank of Crooks. This is proving to be an interesting ne for me to put together, there are so many rabbit holes to fall into! Either way the cover is settled that’s it below, and yes it will be a few months and maybe more yet before it hits the shelves, but i do like keeping my tribe informed way ahead of time!

As ever,

Keep on...

Hi everyone, just wanted to give you a teaser of what’s coming your way! I said in my last post that someone suggested that i ought to look at white collar/corporate crimes and guess what? There is a lot to write about! So, here is a cover mockup for what i think is going to be book one in ether a triology or an arc of five books. Do any of you remember the headlines from that incident? I know i do. Without giving too much away, the Sicilian Mafia we’re chief suspects as he was also a member...

Good Moring all,

Well there you have it at last my first real attempt at Sci-Fi, after many months of writing and i have to say getting lost in the story occasionally! You now have available for purchase my 9 book saga, entitled The Aurora Run. If you are a sci-fi reader then enjoy!

I am just so happy at getting that series completed and available. Other than that i guess i can take a bit of time off now as i research some of my favourite niches. It looks like I’ll be heading back over to the...

Good morning everyone,

First off id like to say a big thank you to all of you who have in one way or another wished me a happy birthday, yes today i turned 73 yrs young. So thank you to everyone for the wishes.

On the writing front, just got back from a very good productive two weeks on the Hebridean Isle of Colonsay, i was able to almost daily rattle on with my latest saga The Aurora Run. Yes it is my first serious attempt at Sci-Fi and as usual from me it will Be a 9 book saga. Book 1-6...

How are you all doing?

I hope life is good with you. As for me? Well, scribing away as usual, my newest saga The Aurora Run is coming along nicely, this is my first serious attempt at Sci-Fi and it has been a devil to write in places! Trying to remember who, where, why, how etc etc, but hey ho i am about to start book 7 of a nine part Saga so i guess it will be appearing soon here on this site and eventually on Amazon KDP. No definite release date as yet, I think I’ll just drip feed the whole...

Evening all,

A wee note about the third and final arc of the 9 book saga that i am in the act of completing.

Books 1-6 have already been released, book 7 is written, and right now, today, i started on book 8. So all in all it’s coming along as stated in a previous blog post and the complete 9 boook saga will be available by the end of the month. I am currently spending approx 6-8 hours daily on the saga, and i am in my favourite place for writing, The Hebridean Isle of Colonsay, my go to place...

Good Morning to you all,

Below is a description of the 2nd Arc of the 9 book Arc that i am working on. Books 4,5,6, are now available on Amazon KDP and of course through HTTPS://billysbookclub.com

The third and final trilogy will be available in a few months.

The Divided Crown Trilogy

For centuries, the succession of the crown has been considered settled.

Until a quiet argument begins to change the law of the realm.

What starts as an academic debate soon spreads through courts, academies, and...

The Divided Crown Trilogy Is Now Available on Amazon (and Free in Kindle Unlimited)

There comes a moment in every long project where the work stops being private.

After months of drafting, refining, restructuring, and ensuring the internal logic holds under pressure, I’m pleased to say that The Divided Crown – Trilogy One is now live on Amazon.

All three books are available individually, and for those who read through Kindle Unlimited, the entire trilogy is available to read there as part of...