What does everyone think of Felix Romsey's Afterparty? Don't tell me... tell Amazon or Goodreads.

I've had some lovely comments from readers who have either finished, or who are a good way through the book. Which is great!

But I have yet another small favour to ask - please give the book a review! On Amazon, or Goodreads. This will be a great help in extending the book's reach, and can even…

Happy summer's day to you all... firstly, I hope by now everyone will have received their books, or the email with the e-book. If not, please email support@unbound.co.uk and ask the very nice people if there's a problem.

Assuming you've received the book and assuming you're enjoying it... please remember to leave me an Amazon review on this page! Reviews help almost every aspect of the book world…

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If you've ordered the paperback it will be with you very soon, probably Monday (if you're in the UK). You might get an email saying "your Clays Ltd order will be delivered on" etc, but apparently with no information about what it IS. It's my book! So don't go nuts reporting spam, and so forth.

Anyway - if you are so inclined - feel free to take a daft photo of you with said book…

It’s been a long time coming. It’s almost two years since I closed my mighty laptop with a thunderous clunk, having finished the first, rather ramshackle draft of Felix Romsey’s Afterparty.

And it's almost one year since we hit the crowdfunding target, which is of course all down to YOU.

So I’m delighted to be able to say: Felix - in its full rewritten, and edited, and rewritten, and edited…

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My novel FELIX ROMSEY'S AFTERPARTY is almost ready to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world, so it’s time for everyone to see the cover design...

Great design job done by Mark Ecob, I'm sure you'll agree. I really dig the surfing cherub, which will be more prominent on the back, and I think I'll be using it as an emblem here and there.

We have a launch date for the novel..…

How long is it since you've made a proper, old-school compilation, or "mixtape" as they're currently, and often misleadingly, known? Me, it's been a while. In the 90s it was the go-to thing you did, when courting a new Special Person. I guess it follows, therefore, that I haven't done one since about 2003. It's surprising what you forget about them: the little rules (no artist gets two songs!…

Greetings everyone: hope you're all well and up to your eyeballs in chocolate/mince pies/mulled wine/insert-name-of-favourite-pre-Christmas-indulgence-here.

I haven't been in touch for a while, and unlike many I-haven't-been-in-touch-for-a-while messages I have a totally definitive and non-ambiguous excuse for it... I WAS ON TOUR. A bloody great long exhausting but actually quite brilliant European…

Editing can be a queasy process. I can already tell that the editor who's been assigned to Felix is excellent: measured and often quite bold suggestions from someone who clearly knows what they're doing. Naturally, being a musician, I'm comparing it to the comments of a record producer - "Why don't you do it like this?" "Have you ever thought of changing the key?" "Does it have to have a guitar…

That feeling when you send your completed manuscript to your new editor for the first time... is it a little like sending off your child for the first day at school, leaving you to spend the rest of the day nervous that they're going to come home either crying at how hideous it all was, or so grown-up and changed beyond all recognition that you're the one who bursts into floods of tears?

No.

I wanted you, as fantastic novel supporters, to be the first to know... WE'VE DONE IT! That's right, with your amazing assistance we've hit 100% funded with almost two weeks to spare. That's really quite amazing.

Sorry to sound all Churchillian, but this is not, of course, the end - not even the beginning of the end - but it is perhaps the end of the beginning. Fully funded means the work starts…

Greetings all - and welcome to those who've recently funded the novel - you are, of course, awesome.

83% funded right now... 127 backers... less than a month to go so please keep on speading the word!

Matthias Hombauer, as well as being a great photographer, a jolly nice chap AND a Felix-supporter (and a very generous one at that) has also made his own excellently put-together PODCAST... and…

Even festivals in the Afterlife need a bit of promotion. Below is a fabulous depiction of what a Felix Romsey's Afterparty poster might look like... based on the line-up for the year in which my novel is set.

I think you'll agree it looks bloody brilliant, and I'd like to thank Dawn Kelly for her great design - she also did the graphics for the short film The Five Wives And Lives Of Melvyn…

Once again, a very large and Easter-chocolate-filled THANKS to everyone who has sent their hard-earned pounds/euros/dollars/etc virtually winging their way towards the Unbound bank account in support of Felix Romsey's Afterparty. As I write we are hurtling towards a nice fat 53% funded, which - before even the end of the campaign's first month - I'd venture is a pretty rocktastic result.

Backers…

Greetings - and THANK YOU to those who've just supported Felix Romsey's Afterparty, you really are ruddy marvellous.

This is just a quickie to say I've penned a new Huffington Post blog about why the blithering heck I decided to write a novel about rock festivals in the Afterlife, and you can read it by clicking these magic words right here.

I went to Unbound's - the publishers - office on Thursday…

We launched the campaign for my third novel FELIX ROMSEY'S AFTERPARTY yesterday and I must admit I'm overwhelmed (and slightly relieved) at the response. We're currently 23% funded in just 24 hours... that's almost A Percent per hour (forgive me for the massively technical maths lingo). But with these crowdfundy things, it's often a marathon, not a sprint, so it's up to me, with your kind assistance…