SPENSER GOES NORTH is released on Amazon Kindle

Yes, the last post showed two covers that were hugely different from this one, but the other concepts just didn't work out and so here is the latest book with an entirely different set of clothes, finally set loose on an unsuspecting world.

Or Amazon Kindle at least.

The obligatory blurb goes like this:

'Wardington-Smythe is Britain's greatest hero; gentleman adventurer, master marksman, expert fencer and all-round doer of derring. He is exactly the kind of man you want on the job when the Imperial Commonwealth faces its greatest peril.

It's a shame that he's fictional.

The task of saving the Commonwealth falls instead to Wardington-Smyth's creator, a novelist for whom adventure is changing his supplier of bacon.

Aided only by a street urchin of dubious morality, Spenser Warwick must solve the mystery of scented letters, vanishing airships and abducted ladies whilst not getting drugged in public conveniences. At least not again.

Adventure is certainly not how he imagined it.'


It's a standalone novel, but then again so was The Man From U.N.D.EA.D. and look what happened there.

UK link:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spenser-Goes-North-Darren-Humphries-ebook/dp/B00K3KH7YY/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr
US link:  http://www.amazon.com/Spenser-Goes-North-Darren-Humphries-ebook/dp/B00K3KH7YY/

Now I'm On Kindlegraph

There's this site called Kindlegraph.com where readers of books (no, you don't need to read e-books or own a kindle, though those are the obvious targets for this) can send a request for a dedication from the author of a book. This is sent to them as a pdf including the cover of the book in question and whatever dedication that the author has seen fit to make.

At the request of a reader, I've added myself to this, though I have no expectations of anyone else wanting it.

It's just another example of the possibilities of e-books and e-readers.

Kindle final test not so easy

When it comes to self-publishing on Kindle it's pretty easy if you have any sort of computer literacy, but I've come across a slight glitch in the final step.

My latest book, The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. - The Curious Case Of The Kidnapped Chemist had gone through all the various pre-checks and even the dtp online preview.

All I needed to do was to publish it, buy it and then unpublish it whilst I checked it out on my own kindle as a final check.

Unfortunately,  the system doesn't allow for that. The book was published and became available to download almost immediately, but on the dtp platform it is still marked as 'publishing' hours later and I am unable to upload a new version that deals with two very minor formatting issues that have somehow cropped up in the final dtp translation until whatever process that denotes is completed.

This is one of the few times that I am hoping that nobody notices the book until I can get the new file uploaded and the issues resolved.