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October 2026 · Issue No. 3 Hi there Welcome to the October newsletter. What a month it has been. It started with the BookBub Featured Deal for A Detective's Dilemma in August, which finished with 15,285 downloads. Then came the deal for A Minister's Downfall in September, which passed 10,000 downloads in the first ten hours. Put the two together and more than 31,000 new readers have now picked up a Tom Kessler book. Thank you to everyone who downloaded one, and a warm welcome

September 2026 · Issue No. 2 Hi there Welcome to the September newsletter. It’s been a very busy few days with the BookBub Featured Deal and an emergency operation to deal with. For some reason the surgeon wouldn’t let me check how the Featured Deal was running whilst I was in theatre. Can’t understand it myself. Anyway, all better now and we crack on. FROM THE CASE FILES This month's true story. This month’s true story isn’t one of mine. It’s my ex-wife’s, and it’s the other

August 2026 · Issue No. 1 Hi Everyone Welcome to the first blog which is a copy of the newsletter I send out to those subscribers to my email list. On the 18th August it's exactly one year since I decided to write a novel and, here we are, one year later, with five written and one on the way. That's why I decided to start a newsletter and drop it now as opposed to the beginning of the month. There isn't enough space here to explain how much I've learned in that time. I had no