Flower Shop

You can now read a fair chunk of my novel "Like A Flower" at Amazon.

You can even buy it there too...

First Write Your Book...

How many times do you have to write a book before it's finished? I've lost count now. Having done what I thought was the final draft, I am now doing the final final draft of Like A Flower, my novel about life, death, love and gardening.

It's going to be out this autumn and the publisher wants the copy (in perfect condition) this week. Initially, I dreaded the prospect of going through it one more time. But having got two-thirds of the way, I've found that I'm enjoying it. Good story, good characters and some intriguing twists... Can't quite believe that it's by me.

And meanwhile the new book, With Fervent Heat, is under way. Can't wait to read it... but I guess I'll have to write it first.

Like A Bestseller?

The final rewriting and tweaking of my novel Like A Flower is now done. It would have been done sooner but a lot of life got in the way.

Now it's just a question of agents and publishers fighting over the rights to it... Well, not quite. More a case of my doing everything I can to get one of them to see that it's worth all the work that has gone into it.

I'm already indebted to my friend, colleague and published author Matt Rudd who made some great suggestions about the book and how to sell it. And to a number of other journalists who have given me promising contacts.

And if you're an agent/publisher... Like A Flower is a page-turning thriller about life, death, love... and gardening...

Site For Sore Eyes

Well, it's up at last... the website. Apart from a few little glitches that are being sorted, www.nigelsummerley.com is alive and reasonably well.

The idea of it is to promote the various strands of work that I do: journalism, writing, music, drum teaching. Now I'll have to see if it was worth all the effort put in by my friend and former colleague Keith, one of the best systems experts in the media business.

There is probably more information on there than anyone needs to know, but I promise that I've done my best to keep it brief and easy on the eye. I can't bear looking at those websites that have so much going on that, however hard you try, you can't find anything that you actually want to know.