At last, I have made it over the finishing line. After a slight delay, my book ‘I don’t talk to dead bodies: the curious encounters of a forensic psychiatrist’ was finally published on 15.9.22. It was incredibly exciting to receive the delivery of books from the printers, open the first box and see my book smiling back at me. It was akin to the joy of delivering a baby… it was such a long time in the making!…And then the realisation kicked in!

I was fortunate to have about 200 pre orders which required signing, but then came the job of boxing them up and addressing them for posting out. I hadn’t quite thought through how I was going to manage the logistics of taking 200 boxes to the post office and persuade the post mistress to individually label them. In the end I just split the task between two post offices, sweet talked the staff and gave them a free book for their trouble. Sorted !

I now have much more admiration for the staff at Amazon. They had about 200 more books to send out for me. My ebook and audiobook went on sale too, but fortunately no packaging was required for them.

Promotion of the book now needs to ramp up. After the press launch and celebration launch party with 100 friends and family this week I need to do more newspaper, podcast and radio promotion. Fortunately, I have interviews already set up and this week alone I recorded a podcast with Soundsaboutright and a radio segment for Revival radio. I also got my book stocked in The Book Nook independent bookstore/ cafe in Stirling, so I am delighted about that.

At the beginning of October I have a virtual book tour of book bloggers for 10 days, which should widen my reach too. It’s all go! If you have already bought my book and liked it, please kindly leave a review on Goodreads or a similar platform.