The first week of my new work plan has commenced, I have until Sunday to record the audio book of my brother’s novel Whatever Happened To Nathan McKenzie and get it ready for release in December. Today I didn’t get round to it as I was catching up with my blog and emails in order to enable me to start recording with a clean slate. I already have three chapters recorded so hopefully I will manage to get it all done this week so that between next Monday and the following Sunday I can tackle a writing commitment. Whatever Happened To Nathan McKenzie did quite well when it was first released last summer which was a fantastic result for Jack, (my brother Jack, not to be confused with my dog) who had spent four years writing it. He’s a school teacher so managed to fit the book in during a busy work schedule. In trying to promote the book he asked my advice on how to go about spreading the word. On the back of my bullet-pointed list of ideas he was interviewed by BBC local radio (Middlesbrough) and was featured in the Evening Gazette during a heady summer as a first time author. As the book was a DIY release on Kindle, the onus was on him to promote it without the help of a massive publicity budget provided by a publishing house. If the same amount of work is put in to promote the audio book then it should get a pretty good response. If all goes well I will have plenty to promote during the run up to the festive season, so at least it’ll give me a break from Christmas shopping.

On tonight’s Eastenders the subject has returned to the murder of Lucy Beale, with Billy Mitchell now in the frame. He is acting suspiciously which led me to believe that the mystery object in the freezer is her head. It might not be though.

Eastenders has never shied away from over-egging the political correctness pudding, so I was surprised to hear Tosh call her girlfriend a lemon. I haven’t heard such a homophobic outburst since Bernard Manning died.

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