Mike Delaney Thrillers – Book Tour and Giveaway

Many thanks from the author – David

Making a triple thriller video

I enjoy playing around with video, although I’m by no means an expert. I’m trying to learn the secrets of telling my stories visually, and in no more than a few minutes or two.

The problem with all promotion, especially of books, is that you don’t know if your ads, videos, posts and newsletters actually work. It”s a fine line in these times of brief attention spans between boring the pants off people and getting them to respond.

The character of Mike Delaney is not of a stereotypical action hero, world weary cop with issues, forensic scientist, wanderlust with no home – that populate the modern crime thriller genre.

I did ‘construct’ him to some degree when on holiday with my wife in Marmaris, Turkey, quite a few years ago. He is me to a degree but exaggerated out of all proportion. I’ve never been an assassin, a cop or a monk, except in my fantasies, but some elements of these character traits must be inside my psyche somewhere.

See what you think of my triple thriller video. Let me know. Either chat to me HERE or contact me via this site.

Feedback is vital and I really appreciate honest opinions.

Keep the faith.

 

A new year, a deep breath, a break from writing and a re-evaluation

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I seem to have been writing, marketing, hustling, pitching, surviving disappointments, getting rave reviews, selling a few books (only when promoted) for what seems forever. Late in 2018 I took a break. It was my wife that inadvertently brought this … Continue reading →

I’ve finally come around to Instagram

I should probably have been doing a lot more with social media platforms to publicise my books than I have been.

I’ve always regarded sites such as Instagram as being for younger people, constantly reposting images of virtually everything. Not my typical readership demographic.

But given the number of book bloggers that appear to be on the site, and the number of commercial businesses starting to take seriously, I decided to have a go. My user name is callinan.david. I’m still figuring out how to use it. Apparently I’m supposed to post something every day but I’m not sure that’s feasible. I don’t spend hours on mobile devices, and I have a book to write.

In fact, why don’t you follow me on Instagram. You probably know better than I do how it works.

One thing I have done is to assemble all my links (including Instagram and the new and interesting publishing platform, Inkshares) into one LINKS WIZARD central link, Just click on the link below and you can follow, like, repost and buy books to your heart’s content.

https://linktr.ee/callinan.david

Keep the faith

Facebook on test

This post will be short and sweet.

It appears that Facebook is stopping the ability of third party platforms, such as WordPress, from posting posts on Facebook.

So this is a test. I want to see if it automatically posts on Facebook.