I went to a magazine launch of Transmission (www.transmissionhq.org) on Wednesday 1st Feb 2007 at Sandbar in Manchester, an old haunt of mine from my days living in the city. Transmission’s remit is to publish work of up and coming authors and recently won the Inc writers award. They now have a readership of 600 which is a phenomenal growth given that this is only their seventh edition, their first starting with a print run of 50.

Transmission has themed issues and comes out three times a year. My story published was for a ‘time’ edition entitled ‘How the Loneliness of the Dartford Toll Operator made me miss a Digital Miracle’, a long title, partly in homage to Morrissey, a master of the convoluted and abstract. I forgot to mention my website in the author biog and so missed out on the opportunity for self promotion. I really must try harder in the future, honestly…

Photo by Erik Mclean at Pexels. 

I missed the book launch for ‘Ideas Above Our Station’ on January 24th at Waterstones. This was a pity as it’s always good to meet up with fellow authors and place faces to names. On the positive side, I missed it because I was up in the jungles of north Thailand. A more than suitable alternative. I am still awaiting feedback on the second draft of This is all I Know which is frustrating as it feels as if it has been dragging on for years now. But as I have stated on numerous occasions in these blogs, patience is part and parcel of publishing. Route are an ever expanding publisher with an increasingly impressive portfolio. With smaller presses most of the work is done by a small editorial team, which inevitably means delays. But I promise it will be worth the wait, an editorial and drinking session has been pencilled in for the end of Feb.