This week has been crazily busy - but you get no complaints from me on that score.

A lot of projects are beginning and ending all at the same time - this post is as much for me as anyone else - I hate lists but sometimes you have to remind yourself what you're meant to be doing. And as much as anything else, this week feels like I personally - and the Project as a whole - made a big leap. The cover displayed here is probably therefore very apt.

My Time With The Shoal is one of the last few stories which needed to be overhauled, following the removal of all stories from the shelf in 2014 ahead of the plan to create The Carter Seagrove Project LLC.

There are two significant stories left to overhaul - All The World (The Great Dane Saga) and Grand Affair. Expect to see these in the summer.

My Time With The Shoal is re-released on Friday 10th April 2015.

It probably is a year ago now that Chambers and I first started talking about a collaboration to produce a story - that story was Dust Jacket - a murder mystery with a killer twist. That story then went on to spawn a whole new series - The Inspector Fenchurch Mysteries - which opened with The Blakely Affair. Since then we have written and published Black Veil, Stradler's Game, The Helios Protocol and The Fanshawe Scroll. We are about to publish - on 3rd April 2015 - Storm Clouds - the sixth and final instalment of series one. Chambers has already indicated that he wishes to produce a second series and that is now pencilled in for the late summer/early autumn - all being well - opening with 'Agent X'.

My story - All Or Nothing - was chosen by the project to be the first audiobook - we are currently in the midst of production and approximately half of the story has been delivered by the voice talent.

The audiobook edition of the story is likely to be on the shelf during April 2015 - cannot confirm exactly when yet but will blog when I have a date of release.

This will be followed up with another audiobook - Daniel's Garden - probably end of May - we are still auditioning for the voice talent at the moment. If you want to audition - go to ACX - click here

And we are currently deciding on the next audiobook to produce.

Both Shannon and I accepted prompts from the Goodreads challenge this year - we both have stories to deliver by the end of April 2015.

And then there are the stories/projects which are already work-in-progress -

Parts 5 to 7 of The Map Stick to join The Way Of Water
Oswald's Lament - a spin off from The Weaver & The Loom
The second story from the series Tales of The Unexpected - to join Delayed Reaction
The second brief encounter anthology - Hurdles - to join Gone But Not Forgotten
The Gloriana Saga - a contemporary family saga based loosely on the lives of the Queens of England collectively referred to as The She Wolves (which will be my first story written exclusively from a female POV). It is intended that Shannon collaborates on that project.

I'll never be bored!

ALP
x

Odyssée is the reworked single volume which contains the two stories - Hold It! and The Eclipse of Venus - both previously published separately, and both have been off the shelf for a good while awaiting re-editing.

******************************************

Kenny is running from a past that he would like to forget; Johnny is sinking into the present, a present which he hesitates to move from. Caught in the cross-hairs of Fate’s sight, they meet at a crossroads in the middle of nowhere.

Propelled by a re-occurring dream in which the two of them are standing together on a deserted beach beside a bleached out old tree from which a wind chime is hanging, they embark on a road trip with no choice but to put all of their faith in their new-found love. They find so much more than they could ever have dreamed.

Odyssée is available everywhere - click the cover to use the gallery page and find the link for the retailer of your choice.

Thank you

Alp
xx

I am really excited to reveal the cover for Odyssée - the single volume which brings together the two parts of the story - Hold It and The Eclipse of Venus.


The two parts were previously published separately - then taken off of the eBook shelf to be reworked into one volume and re-covered.


Odyssée will be published by Friday 20th March. It is the story of two men who meet at the crossroads of their who decide to find the place that one of the men sees in a dream.

The Carter Seagrove Project's first audiobook project, featuring my story - All Or Nothing - just got the green light. Our voice talent accepted our offer and we have moved into production.

Should see the finished audiobook on the shelf by the end of March - hopefully sooner.

Thanks to Shannon and Chambers for voting my story to be first up.

AND

A second audiobook project has just been launched featuring my story - Daniel's Garden - auditions being accepted via ACX.com

Thank you for supporting me and The Project.

Love
Alp
xx

We have produced the first book trailer and it can now be seen on YouTube - click here to go to YouTube or view it below. The Baker of Son Frere was chosen for the first book video-based ident project - thanks to Wizkil for the generous use of the studio and for mixing the voice and music file.

Thanks especially to Shannon for producing the image montage and overlaying the audio - I know it was very tricky!

Alp
xx

The audiobook project which will bring All or Nothing to the shelf as the first Carter Seagrove Project audiobook of 2015 is coming to a close in that today 6th March we choose the voice talent for the project.

There is still time to submit an audition - go to ACX.com to find the project and the script.

Will announce over the weekend, who has been chosen for the voice to bring All Or Nothing to life.

Thank you to everyone who submitted an audition.

Alp x

My story - All Or Nothing - was chosen for the first Carter Seagrove Project audiobook.

The voice talent is being chosen at the end of this week and with a bit of luck, the audiobook will be out by the end of March/beginning of April.

Alp