by Darren Young | May 17, 2017 | Blog
Tomorrow is the publication day of Child Taken. A journey that started in the late summer of 2014 has reached its most significant milestone and after the launch event at Waterstones Nottingham tomorrow, we will be ‘retiring’ to my favourite coffee shop, where the...
by Darren Young | May 13, 2017 | Blog
The email from Red Door confirmed they wanted to publish Child Taken. I’d had a lovely chat with Clare, the founder who launched Red Door in 2014 and with lots of support from Anna and with Heather continually championing the book, we discussed some small (and one not...
by Darren Young | May 12, 2017 | Blog
Child Taken is launched in a few day’s time. Less than a week, in fact. I say it like that because, putting it down in words, I can actually begin to believe it’s real. What’s more, the reviews in the Blog Tour have been amazing and the launch event at Waterstones...
by Darren Young | May 5, 2017 | Blog
It’s just over a week until Child Taken is released. I should be getting excited but I’ve not ordered the alcohol yet for the post-launch party and I’m also trying to work out how many glasses of bubbly you can squeeze from one bottle, so I don’t end up...
by Darren Young | May 4, 2017 | Blog
I’ve just seen a picture from the publishers of my book, quite literally hot off the press, in all its glory. More than two years of blood, sweat, lies and – almost – tears and I can now touch it (well, once they send me a copy in the post, I can). Last...
by Darren Young | Apr 28, 2017 | Blog
By now, having subscribed to a few online newsletters or by downloading what looked like useful stuff, I was getting inundated with email after email that promised to help me achieve my dream. If I’d let it happen, just reading them all could have taken up pretty...
