I appreciate it’s a weird thing to do, having spent most of my adult life seeking out conventional publishers (and occasionally finding them) but, having finally reached the age where bits of me are falling off/seizing up/dropping dead, I have decided to reclaim most of my titles and stick to self-publishing from now on. ItContinue reading “A Mad Move to Self-publishing”
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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”
The Stranger in My House, by Judith Barrow: my review
THE STRANGER IN MY HOUSE is the third of Judith Barrow‘s more contemporary domestic noir dramas (following THE MEMORY and SISTERS) and I was lucky enough to have an advance copy, so although it isn’t officially published until tomorrow, I’m going ahead to review it anyway. I did try reading it in small segments, toContinue reading “The Stranger in My House, by Judith Barrow: my review”
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”
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”
New Book, Old Series: BY THE BOOK
So, I write crime fiction, and I write historical fiction and sometimes I revert to my first love, Science Fiction, which returned to the surface of my consciousness thanks to Covid 19 and the Lockdown. Fed up with everything grinding a halt, with no obvious light on the horizon, I dug out a trilogy, SALVAGE,Continue reading “New Book, Old Series: BY THE BOOK”
Reading, Writing and Multitasking
A really good piece of advice for novel writers is: read. Read novels, read lots of novels, read every day, keep reading. That’s the way you learn how a book works, how it is constructed, what it gives and what it takes. You learn what language can do. So any decent writer obeys this adviceContinue reading “Reading, Writing and Multitasking”
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