Wilkie Martin

Best selling cozymystery comedy fantasy writer Wilkie Martin. Author of unhuman series.

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#BookTrailers For #CozyMystery Inspector Hobbes and the Bones by Wilkie Martin

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Certain trouble lies ahead for Andy Caplet. Is the apparently charming young woman who attempts to seduce him merely setting him up for blackmail, or is something even more sinister afoot? Inspector Hobbes certainly believes so, and, though he’s not the sort to worry, he is getting worried.
Inspector Hobbes and the Bones, the fourth in my comedy cozy mystery crime fantasy series unhuman, was published in December 2016. I have recorded 5 short extracts from early on in the book as booktrailers and all have now been released. I hope you enjoy them.
I’ve also recorded short extracts from the previous books in the series, which you can find on my youtube channel @wilkiewrites (or on my website / facebook), And if you have a daft sense of humour you may also enjoy my silly poems – also on my youtube channel,
Inspector Hobbes and the Bones, and all my books are available on Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Nook etc in ebook, They are also available as paperbacks and hardbacks. (And now also in audiobook.)
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#Booktrailers #cozymystery Inspector Hobbes and the Bones by Wilkie Martin

1.       Andy and Hobbes meet a distraught Skeleton Bob and learn of Crackling Rosie’s sad fate

2.       Andy battles a tree

3.       Hobbes sends Andy to retrieve a boat

4.       Andy rescues a boy from the flood

5.       Bob and Fenella have a bust-up at home

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This was first posted in 2017 on blogger.com, the original home of my blog, .

First Booktrailer for CozyMystery Inspector Hobbes and the Bones

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Book Trailer
I spent this morning (15 December 2016) in reading a few extracts of Inspector Hobbes and the Bones. This will be published tomorrow. I recorded 5 extracts, the first one is now available to give a small taster of the book and as a book trailer.

The book is available in hardback, paperback, ebook and ibook. It is the 4th in the unhuman series, but can be read standalone. It is available from all major retailers online, or to order from shops.

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The above was first posted to blogger.com, the original home of my blog, in December 2016. All 5 youtube videos of me reading from Inspector Hobbes and the Bones are now published on youtube. Here’s the playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyKHX5h_q8&list=PLD5Ly2PbbQbUarJBq0OQFKYac3Fan2IBw

New Nonsense Poem

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Wilkie reading The Fatal Funeral of Uncle Ray

The Fatal Funeral of Uncle Ray
Here is my latest nonsense poem, The Fatal Funeral of Uncle Ray, which I hope you enjoy. I had the following lines going round and round in my head insisting on being written:

‘Many folk perished, so it’s said, the day
of the fatal funeral of Uncle Ray.’

I finished it (if a poem can ever be finished) last week and recorded it on Sunday, which was one of the RSPB birdwatch days. The birds seemed to know this and were out in force, singing merrily and loudly all the time. They weren’t even distracted when we gave up and fed them, in the hope they would stuff their beaks and shut up. At the time of recording the noise from birds and cars didn’t seem too bad but, on playback, they came over very loud. The robin was especially magnificent (I’d heard it practicing the previous week when it had been singing very quietly but it chose to really go for it as soon as we started recording). Luckily on the final recording, (the 7th – it was far too cold to do any more without bits dropping off) the birds weren’t so close to the microphone and only one car passed. I think this final recording is ok but I can see why professionals use directional mics.

The poem had its first outing at Writers in the Brewery on Thursday 26 Jan 2012, when I also used my kindle for the first time, having just loaded The Fatal Funeral of Uncle Ray onto it. I must remember to choose a larger font next time since reading from it at home is far easier than reading with slightly odd lighting.

The same night at the Brewery, as well as some other readings of poetry and prose there was some excellent music from Keith Thompson, sometimes with Nick John (of Lyadrive) on vocals.

This was originally posted to blogger.com, the original home of my blog, in 2012.
Like the other youtube recordings of my poems this was produced as a small file for quick loading and the quality of the recording has been reduced – you can stil hear those pesky birds though.
The Fatal Funeral of Uncle Ray is included in Relative Disasters – my little book of silly verse. It is available in ebook, paperback and haredback. A free download link of the ebook is sent to those who join my readers’ list newsletter.

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