Bottleneck

by Ed James

The first novel I ever wrote was about music and a band called The Invisibles. It's been immense fun to reuse that world in a Cullen novel and reacquaint myself with the characters. I also butchered EVIL SCOTSMAN (for Matt MacLeod), a book I'd partly written a draft of and gave up after GHOST IN THE MACHINE started clicking into gear. I did this re-engineering not out of writer's block but to stop me picking up flawed books again - the word count in the bag is illusory and I've finally put them to rest. There's only one more left in my cupboard and I've got concrete plans for that.

  So, what's next for Cullen? Well, the next book is WINDCHILL, out in October which will have two stories, showing what Christmas is like in the Cullen/McNeill household. It will be solely based in Edinburgh, trust me.

  Swiftly following that, COWBOYS & INDIANS will be out soon after and is something I've wanted to write for a LONG time, believe me. Rest assured I plan to write loads more in the series - REARGUARD and WORLD'S END are also loosely outlined and book ten is starting to eat at my synapses.

  If you're new to Cullen, I've just released a collection of the first four books for a bargain price and GHOST IN THE MACHINE is still free.

  My main focus now will be on a new police procedural series - DS Vicky Dodds, set in Dundee. Watch out for book 1 in the DS Dodds Mysteries - tentatively titled BEASTS - sometime in the summer, and I hope to get another two novels in the series out this year.

  I've given up on the vampire stuff until there's a critical mass of downloads of SHOT THROUGH THE HEART. As such, I'm currently tweaking CRASH INTO MY ARMS to become a hardcore police procedural, rather than a hardcore police procedural with vampires. That's the next project for me. Poor DI Simon Fenchurch.

  One final note, if you could find time to leave a review (positive or negative) where you bought this, I'd really appreciate it - a critical mass of reviews is a huge benefit to indie authors like myself.

  -- Ed James

  East Lothian, March 2014

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  OTHER BOOKS BY ED JAMES

  THE SCOTT CULLEN SERIES

  1GHOST IN THE MACHINE

  2DEVIL IN THE DETAIL

  3FIRE IN THE BLOOD

  4DYED IN THE WOOL

  5BOTTLENECK

  6WINDCHILL (pre-order now)

  Writing as Edwin James -

  SHOT THROUGH THE HEART, a standalone supernatural thriller

  About Ed James

  Ed James lives in the East Lothian countryside with his girlfriend, six rescue moggies, two retired greyhounds and a flock of ex-battery chickens and rescue ducks. He works in IT, but doesn’t wear sandals or have a beard.

  GHOST IN THE MACHINE, his first novel, has been downloaded over 210,000 times and has been followed by another four books in the SCOTT CULLEN series, the most recent of which - BOTTLENECK - was released on 17th March 2014.