Colin Bell is a novelist and poet - formerly a television producer-director.

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Hello and welcome! I am Colin Bell, a novelist and poet, previously a TV producer-director of arts programmes, also known as the blogger Wolfie Wolfgang. My novel Stephen Dearsley's Summer Of Love was published in 2013, my next novel Blue Notes, Still Frames will be published in October 2016 - check them out on Amazon. I hope you find something here among my daily blogs. I write about anything that interests me - I hope it interests you too. Let me know.

Tuesday 22 October 2013

My novel is off to the printers today - Stephen Dearsley is leaving home.


I think it's only normal for me to feel excited today because my novel is off to the printers ready for its release next week on 31 October. I've enjoyed each stage of writing my book, Stephen Dearsley's Summer Of Love, but there is something special about the feeling today that it is all done and beyond any temptation to rewrite. It is also a strangely emotional moment, the final stage before poor Stephen leaves the safety of his author's and publisher's  protection before facing his fate out there in the world. I hope people will be kind to him, poor guy. It feels like he's leaving home.



I now have the exciting moment to look forward to when my novel is finally there in my hand - completed, printed and giving off that wonderful aroma unique to new books. I first dreamt of that moment as a child.

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Stephen Dearsley's Summer Of Love by Colin Bell

Stephen Dearsley's Summer Of Love by Colin Bell
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