When I was very young, we had a car. A Morris 8, black, with a starting handle, little orange fingers that stuck out of the side as indicators, running boards and a blind in the small rear window that we children managed to break but never admitted to, which was okay because it was neverContinue reading “Isle of Wight Inspiration and Fatal Nostalgia”
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A TIME FOR SILENCE: first love
A TIME FOR SILENCE. It wasn’t my first novel by a long chalk, but it was the first to be published. Like Jane Austen, you see (and I do try to bring her into as many posts as possible). She wrote several books, including FIRST IMPRESSIONS, which later became PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, before she wasContinue reading “A TIME FOR SILENCE: first love”
New Book: COLD IN THE EARTH
Today’s the day when my latest novel (psychological crime) is officially available from Amazon, as paperback and e-book. COLD IN THE EARTH. Yes I know the title’s been used before but then so have all my titles, and I really needed this one because of the way Emily Brontë’s poem continues, especially the third verse:Continue reading “New Book: COLD IN THE EARTH”
Body of Evidence. Part II
A murder happens, the culprit is caught, convicted and sent down. The case is closed and we are done with it. But that isn’t always the case for the victims and certainly not for their surviving loved ones. Here are four murder victims. Apart from being murdered, what do they have in common? The ultimateContinue reading “Body of Evidence. Part II”
Oh for a snapshot of the past.
I do wish that throughout my childhood, teens and early adult years, I and my family had viewed cameras as a means of documenting everyday life, instead of taking endless snaps of cute kids or holiday views. My mother did take a lot of photos of us, and she valued them all, filling endless albumsContinue reading “Oh for a snapshot of the past.”
New Title, New Cover, Same Tale.
First there was A Time For Silence, my domestic noir novel set in the present day and in the North Pembrokeshire of the 1930s and 40s. Who killed John Owen and why was no one caught? A moody blue cover with a photo of a cottage very near me. Then there was The Covenant, anContinue reading “New Title, New Cover, Same Tale.”
NEW BOOK: Consequential Short Stories
I’ve always been a reader, the longer the book the better. I like disappearing into vast tomes or, better still, series. If I’d been asked, as a child, if I’d like a collection of short stories, my answer would have been an emphatic no. It would never have occurred to me to read something thatContinue reading “NEW BOOK: Consequential Short Stories”
Crime Cymru post
I have written for Crime Cymru about my use of places and houses in my books.
The Publishing Road Less Travelled
Or less traveled, if you’re American. Writers in their yellow wood of composition come to their own diverging roads at last, and have to decide which path to send their completed book down – the conventional route via agent and publisher, or the other, self-publishing. Is the latter still the one less travelled? Possibly not,Continue reading “The Publishing Road Less Travelled”
By The Book. The End
BY THE BOOK, the third instalment of my Science Fiction trilogy, SALVAGE, is out today. Yippee. When I say Science Fiction, I mean it’s set in the future, in about 250 years, and it’s set in Space, mostly, but other than that it is like all my books, sci-fi, crime or historical, about people findingContinue reading “By The Book. The End”
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