DIVE a totally gripping, breathlessly twisty crime mystery

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I’m under no illusion, that the problems I encountered are indicative of wider problems in the publishing industry.

I was told that an indie publisher can be more nimble, more reactive to market trends than a traditional publisher can be.When you know you’ve written the best book you’re capable of, and people still don’t like it – that can take some getting used to.

Jon is a BAFTA member and BFI Script Reader, and has twice been nominated as a Screencraft Quarterfinalist in 2022 and 2023. The book is written in the third person throughout so we see the police perspectives as well as the criminals. The emotional burden is one to be engaged with and recognised, or you risk believing, that your reasonable reactions to unreasonable situations are somehow wrong. I did speak to many commercial divers, and some of the old guard from the marine police consulted me informally. That mix of science fiction and science fact and fast-paced action just ticked the boxes for me at that time in my life.The actual marketing activity consisted of a handful of tweets, and Dive didn’t feature in newsletters or front-facing online activity. It’s a glaring cliché that police officers possess a dark sense of humour, but in this case, it was definitely true. Each time David pulls a new victim out of the water, he fears it’s his estranged fifteen-year-old daughter Lex. Selling the book on the basis that a female supporting character has a larger role than she actually does felt like lying to readers. Editing a novel was destined to be a daunting task, and the courses fired me up to tackle the self-edit.