Get The Ardenna Crossing Free Today!!

Hey all, Special promotion offer today and tomorrow. You can get the ebook version of The Ardenna Crossing: Between Two Worlds absolutely get today and tomorrow. https://amzn.eu/d/ekPBfcE Click this link and enjoy. Just don’t forget to leave a review (and buy the sequel while you’re at it) Cheers Richard

The Ardenna Crossing: A Thousand White Fragments – TRAILER #1

Hello everyone, Here is the first trailer for The Ardenna Crossing: A Thousand White Fragments. The sequel to my first novel will be released Winter 2025. I’m currently editing and can’t wait to share the next piece of Paul Armstrong’s journey with you all. For updates, check out http://www.richardaustinwriter.com This trailer was created using royalty-free […]

Ardenna Crossing 2 Update – First Draft Complete

Hi all, After a long, long slog, nearly six years since I wrote the first lines of this sequel, I’m very pleased to say that the first draft is done and the next stage is here. The Ardenna Crossing: A Thousand White Fragments Paul and the crew of the Ardenna have been taken through the […]

Ardenna Crossing Update!!

Hi everyone, So, I’m coming to the end of the summer holidays but I’m so excited to report on the progress I’ve made with Book 2 of The Ardenna Crossing. With a couple of days in Reading library (my writing retreat of choice) and a couple more days I was lucky enough to get to […]

Curly Kale is Done!

It’s finished!! I put the finishing touches to my children story (Sin City but with vegetables) the other night sitting in a booth at the Camberley Wetherspoons. Feels so good to have it finished and I was so happy with how it all came together and some of the rhymes. Even left space for a […]

Curly Kale update

Hi everyone, Just a quick update on the children’s book I said I was writing. I’m over half way through it now and I’m really happy with how it’s going. In case you missed my earlier post, it is going to be a children’s picture book written in rhyming couplets. It’s a hard-boiled noir like […]

The Ardenna Crossing – Early Reviews

Hi everyone, Can I say a big thank you to everyone who has bought a copy of The Ardenna Crossing. It means so much that you took a chance and bought a copy and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. The first reviews are in and I thought […]

Ardenna Crossing Book 2 Update

Hi everyone, Announcement time! I got some big pieces of paper out yesterday, stuck them to the wall, and thrashed out the story plan for part 2 of The Ardenna Crossing. The structure and plot are now complete and I know where I’m going, As you might know, I’ve already written seven of twenty-five chapters […]

The Ardenna Crossing – Available now on Amazon

Hi everyone, For my friends and family who already know this, I’m sorry this will be popping up in your news feeds again today. 5 Years ago, I finally started doing what I’d always wanted to do – writing a novel. After a year of writing and several years of editing and agonising over things, […]

World Book Day 2020

Happy World Book Day everyone, Thought I’d share my costume from today at school. I decided to be Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, as it’s one of my favourite poems. Costume nice and easy – just yoga stuff. I had fun making my albatross (it’s always nice to challenge yourself with something you’re not very good at […]