I have some rather exciting personal news which I hope you don’t mind me sharing on here.
You may not know, as well as running Bitesized Languages, I’m also a novelist; and I’m thrilled to be able to tell you that my first novel, The Looking Glass Club, has just come out. It’s a contemporary Science Fiction Thriller and it’s already receiving amazing reviews. I was astonished this weekend when it appeared in the Amazon UK’s Top 50 Best Selling Thrillers (Kindle format). We haven’t even had the launch party yet (more on that in a minute)!
2010-11-05 update: it made it to position 28 in paperback Best Selling thrillers yesterday. =)
The Looking Glass Club is published under my nickname, Gruff Davies, and is available from most online stores, including Amazon:
If this shows the wrong currency, try these links instead:
Amazon UK
Amazon USA
Update 2: If you’re in the UK, you can order signed copies direct from the site for a limited period.
With Christmas coming up, I’d be thrilled if you would consider supporting me by buying a copy, or more than one as presents for friends and family! I’ll be doing signings at the launch party, of course, to which you are cordially invited:
http://anyvite.com/events/home/avw4axxbse
The Looking Glass Club is more than just a novel, it also contains a series of crypic puzzles and I’m offering up to a million pounds to the person or team that solves them first, as well as smaller prizes for puzzles along the way.
Producer Bjorn Solarin has made a short video documentary about how technology impacted my life and the making of the book. He shot it entirely on an iPhone to reinforce the point! You can watch here:
If you can’t join us at the launch, perhaps you’ll join me in celebrating anyway and drink a glass of your own favourite tipple at home. Cheers!
Yours, admittedly, a little giddy with excitement!
Gareth
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Quick Update: Amazon Bestsellers Rank is now: #29 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers (paperback)
http://is.gd/gFskL
Yay! Thanks everyone!
Gareth
hey Gareth,
thanks for this amazing site… I support you by buying the book. I read the insights/comments and I thought it was a very interesting book.
regards
alex
Thanks Alex, that’s very kind! I hope you enjoy it!
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Puzzle 4. Have tried both black/white and white/black solutions and wonder if one of the solution checker checksums is wrong. If it reads “THE LOOKING GLASS” (sort of
) then at least in the free on-line version it maybe that a character is incorrectly printed … this would also explain why the initial submissions to the mini-puzzle are almost but not quite correct. Grateful for confirmation that the text is correct or what the error is. Thanks.
Hi Norman
The checksums are correct. Not all solutions are straightforward. The clue is, presumably, in when you say “sort of”…
Hope that helps.
Gruff
Thanks Gruff. I was afraid you might say that … all the extra work etc.
Anyway, it all makes sense now. And I’m off to hunt down a copy given you are making us work hard enough for the prizes ! Good luck with the book !
@norman: Yep, you got it, well done! You’re in the running to win the iPad…
Good luck!
Gruff