Déjà Vu

Author’s Note

Dear reader,

Thanks for finishing my book. I really appreciate it. Honestly, I lose count of the books I’ve given up on halfway through. I’ve tried to make Déjà Vu the kind of book that you can’t put down. To do this, I’ve taken Elmore Leonard’s advice and carefully removed all the rubbish bits, printed them out, and sent them to Dan Brown as suggestions.

So, back to this important Author’s Note. You know when a street juggler performs the last, amazing trick, and then whips out a moth-eaten beret and invites the audience to help him eat?

That.

By all means, close this book, think no more about it, and good luck to you.

But cast your mind back to my amazing trick with the chicken, unicycle, and the unctuous child from the front row! If you’d like to help me out, and you liked Déjà Vu, please let people know about it. If you thought the book was total flapdoodle, please tell no-one, and it will remain our dirty secret. You see, I’m an independent writer and I pay for my own editing, proof-reading, and marketing. And the coffee! You wouldn’t believe how much the cost of coffee mounts up over the course of a book. Even the cheap stuff I get from Lidl. Seriously. It’s criminal. And I usually let it go cold before I drink it. So, feel free to tweet about Déjà Vu, write me a review on the Kindle store (these are particularly helpful), or otherwise spread the word.

If you look at my Amazon page (US or UK), you’ll see that there is another Saskia Brandt book called Flashback. (The stonkingly huge advert just before this Author’s Note would be another clue.) Furthermore, I’m nose-to-the-grindstone on the third book: The Amber Rooms. Should be out by early 2013. It’s taken me four years and God alone knows how much coffee. I can let you know when that one comes out if you sign up for my mailing list. (I don’t write fiction as part of an elaborate scam to collect email addresses, or I’d write like Dan Brown. Your email address is safe with me.)

You can contact me via my blog, This Writing Life, drop me an email, or tweet me @ian_hocking. I’d love to hear what you think of my work (typos/formatting screws-up also appreciated). I’m particularly keen to hear more from the lady who gave me a one-star review and suggested that I have the reading age of a ten-year-old. Because. Of. My. Short. Sentences. Oh, and to save you some effort: yes, of course I have a real time machine; no, you can’t use it, because that would create entertaining paradoxes, as anyone who’s watched Back to the Future will know.

Once more, thanks for reading.