Utrecht Murders

Happy New Year everyone! At the moment I am writing sequel Utrecht Rain so youd best buy Utrecht Snow to get into the characters! New book involves Goths Serb gangsters and murder most foul

136 Likes 136 Follows But has anyone bought the book?

If anyone is interested in investing in a book I am editing about my home city of Leicester, please go to my GoFundMe page. For the cost of a coffee and a cake you could make a great difference. https://www.gofundme.com/our-city-leicest er

Hi everyone! I find it interesting that over 130 people take the time to like my page and thus have some interaction with it, but then no book sales come from it. What am I doing wrong? Why don't you take the next step, the leap of faith and buy the book? Do let me know, I'd be really interested.

Been sending the novel out to some publishers/agents to see if they are interested. As I wrote earlier, its the waiting that is a bind. Oh well. I love writing so its not as if rejection was ever going to stop me.

Take a look at my web site www.jonathanwilkins.co.uk see what you think. i'm happy to receive thoughts and ideas.

And this is what Maaike loves. Does it match her character?

This is a video of Truus' favourite Depeche Mode song.

Who would think that anything evil could happen in such a beautiful city? Then the snow came!

In Utrecht Snow Caes reminisces about going to see The Boss in Barcelona with his late wife Femke. In honour of Bruce, Truus plays his music as she takes a bath!

Who would have thought that Caes was a Ten Years After fan. He just loves guitar music!

Caes loves Pink Floyd, but not Roger Waters. Truus loves Dave Gilmour. She will do her ironing to "Comfortably Numb" as she finds it very therapeutic. Who doesn't?

One of the key things as a writer seems to be the Art of Waiting. They say that having written some piece you should distance yourself from it, to wait until you approach it again either to edit or to proceed. This can be torturous, especially if you are well into the writing stage. That is the place where words just seem to flow and you don’t want to stop. This editing malarky is inconvenient. Should you edit down or as I do most often, edit up? Adding more and more to a pie...ce. The wait would not work for me.
Then there is the waiting for replies from publishers and agents. I know they have a heck of a lot asked of them, but a six month wait, when even that doesn’t guarantee they will see the piece seems a rather long time. The slush pile may just get higher and higher and your work may never get off the bottom, but it would be nice to know. It only takes a few seconds to say “sorry, this isn’t for us” by email.
Publicising my Utrecht Snow is another case in point. I emailed several review sites, just to ask what their process is. To date nothing. Maybe they are all on their holidays, maybe snowed under (forgive me) with work. But why not say something, anything?
I contacted 140 people on Facebook. all people from the past, from my basketball coaching days. Many I had known for over 5 years, none for less than a year. Just to ask if they were interested in looking at the novel., I know, but desperate times means desperate measures. 140 people. 2 replies. It’s amazing how quickly people forget. 2 replies, 1 book sold!
Competitions and submissions to magazines. Another wait. I expect that, especially if you enter before the closing date. But to have the audacity to charge a fee for an expedited reply for a submission, that’s something else! $5 to have your work seen earlier. Rejected quicker, thats a hard result to take on board.
i sit here at my keyboard, listening to a 1969 song from Canned Heat. Waiting. Not for Godot, but for something to happen. Maybe it will, maybe not. But as I wait i realise that the writing is the important thing and even if no one else wants to read it, I am quite happy to write it. so in that case the waiting is meaningless. Very existential.
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Maaike at the Totale Judo dojo, Balearen. 21.50. Maaike grabbed the judogi of her opponent. There had been the usual slapping and feinting of movements as each tried to get the upper hand. They seemed to grip each other simultaneously and he pulled Maaike towards him trying to catch her off balance, but she was nice and low, her feet wide. She felt his superior strength almost course through his hands. She looked into his eyes and then saw him smirk. This didn’t happen often....
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Many thanks to all those who have visited and liked my page. Why not go the next step and purchase Utrecht Snow? Many thanks again.

Caes is so cool. He loves Peter Green and old Fleetwood Mac. Maybe tinged with a bit of The Boss!