New Novel Title and Cover Reveal The title of my next novel is Officer’s Death Fall From Japan’s Floating Palace. This is the next book in the ‘Iwakura Series’, continuing the adventures of photojournalist ‘Rock’ Iwaku…

New Novel Title and Cover Reveal.

"Officer’s Death Fall From Japan’s Floating Palace" should be available in early 2026.

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Kashiwa Sushi: From Favourite Sushi Restaurant to Memorialising it in a Novel I have done a number of posts about places that have featured in my novels – all of them can be found listed on the pages about the respective novels, listed here. Sometimes when I am plannin…

Kashiwa Sushi: From Favourite Sushi Restaurant to Memorialising it in a Novel

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Favourite Places in Japan: Takamatsu and Ritsurin Park Continuing with my posts about my favourite places in Japan, I’m going to write a bit about another – Takamatsu (高松). I’ve only ever been there twice (I think) – once in 199…

Favourite Places in Japan: Takamatsu and Ritsurin Park

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Some Reflections on Writing “FOUR” – Why it is in Four Parts Yesterday I did an interview for a news item for the alumni network of my high school, Concord College about my latest novel, FOUR, which was recently released as both an eBook and Paperback. Altho…

Some Reflections on Writing “FOUR” – Why it is in Four Parts

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FOUR Japan. Four islands. Four seasons. Four trips. Four current social issues. One book. That was the plan. April 2013. Photo-journalist Iwakura and his reporter friend Eri, as she was known to the who…

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FOUR Japan. Four islands. Four seasons. Four trips. Four current social issues. One book. That was the plan. April 2013. Photo-journalist Iwakura and his reporter friend Eri, as she was known to the who…

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FOUR Japan. Four islands. Four seasons. Four trips. Four current social issues. One book. That was the plan. April 2013. Photo-journalist Iwakura and his reporter friend Eri, as she was known to the who…

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FOUR Japan. Four islands. Four seasons. Four trips. Four current social issues. One book. That was the plan. April 2013. Photo-journalist Iwakura and his reporter friend Eri, as she was known to the who…

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New Novel Title and Cover Reveal The title of my new novel is… FOUR. This relates to the plans that the protagonists have to visit four islands of Japan, over four seasons, during four trips so that they can cover four curre…

New Novel Title and Cover Reveal

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FOUR Japan. Four islands. Four seasons. Four trips. Four current social issues. One book. That was the plan. April 2013. Photo-journalist Iwakura and his reporter friend Eri, as she was known to the who…

Have updated the page with details about my third novel to include the summary. Further details - including the title and cover - will be included soon.

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Title and cover for my new novel are now sorted. More details to follow in 2021.

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Editing a Self-Published Book I recently completed the first draft of my third novel, FOUR, which will be the second book in the Iwakura Series. While I like to take about a week over each chapter when I am initially writing it…

Editing a Self-Published Book

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First Draft of My Third Novel Completed Yesterday I completed the the first draft of my third novel (name to be revealed at another time). I had aimed to be at this stage at the end of January 2021, but thanks to COVID-19 and holidays be…

First Draft of My Third Novel Completed

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“Climber’s High” Of all the disaster narratives that I studied for my article “Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?”, the one that I have studied in most detail is ‘Climber’s H…

“Climber’s High” - part of my study of disaster movies

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About my Novels To date I have written three novels – Hijacking Japan, Tokyo 20/20 Vision, and FOUR. Tokyo 20/20 Vision and FOUR are both part of the ‘Iwakura Series’. Although Iwakura appears br…

Another good writing day. Now completed 65% of the first draft of my third novel. Taken longer to get to Miyazaki than expected, time to ramp up the drama.

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About my Novels To date I have written three novels – Hijacking Japan, Tokyo 20/20 Vision, and FOUR. Tokyo 20/20 Vision and FOUR are both part of the ‘Iwakura Series’. Although Iwakura appears br…

Completed the first draft of 25 chapters of my third novel. 17 to go.

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About my Novels To date I have written three novels – Hijacking Japan, Tokyo 20/20 Vision, and FOUR. Tokyo 20/20 Vision and FOUR are both part of the ‘Iwakura Series’. Although Iwakura appears br…

Have now completed 60,000 words of my third novel.

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Choosing a Character for My Novels When writing novels, one of the hardest things can be creating characters and choosing names. This gets particularly complicated when the character is not only going to appear in one novel, but a w…

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Yuzawa Yuzawa (湯沢) in Niigata prefecture is a small town (population of less than 8,000) that I have visited many times – but never stayed at. That I have been there so many times is thanks to the f…

Yuzawa

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