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December 11, 2015
‘No Good Reason’ Wins Best Lesbian Mystery at the Rainbow Awards
I was dead chuffed to find out that No Good Reasonhad scooped the gong forBest Lesbian Mystery/Thrillerwhenthe annual Rainbow Awards were announced on Monday. The novelalso received four Honourable Mentions, awarded when a judge has scored the book 36/40 or more.
Meanwhile, its sequel,Cold to the Touch, has been picking up some terrific early reviews, including this one from Jem at GoodReads (whose description of Sanne as “diminutive but scrappy” is possibly my favourite ever description of h...
November 30, 2015
A Queer Beat
When I put pen to paper at the start of No Good Reason, I didn’t really consider my motives. Crime has long been a favourite genre of mine, and I had thoroughly enjoyed getting my teeth stuck into the police procedural aspects of my third novel Tumbledown, so it seemed like a natural step to try my hand at writing a fully fledged crime novel. I also craved the opportunity to write a series, and a format where a fresh case could be investigated by recurring protagonists fitted that bill nicely...
November 23, 2015
Cold to the Touch Winners
With apologies for the delay – yesterday was a decidedly shitty day at work and slouching on the sofa was all I was fit for when I got home! – the randomly generated winners of the Cold to the Touchgive away are: Órla Smith who entered over on Facebook and Sarah V who entered on here. Congratulations! And commiserations on the pork scratchings :-)
Almost 200 people threw their names into the ring for this one, so many thanks to everyone who took the time to enter and chat about books, scratch...
November 19, 2015
Cold to the Touch Giveaway
Huzzah! I got my author copies of Cold to the Touchyesterday – on my birthday, no less – and I have two to give away (signed or unsigned, winner decides.) I’ll even throw in a packet of delicious pork scratchings because I’m nice like that. To enter, just say hallo in the comments before Sunday 22nd November, noon GMT. I’ll announcethe winners on Monday 23rd.
And if you don’t know what a pork scratching is, you are in for a treat!
September 4, 2015
Toeing The Lesfic Line
There are a number of cardinal rules for lesfic authors. Chief among these: never kill a puppy, be nice to small children, and always include a bit of romance. The rules might have various origins (the readers, the editors, the publishing houses, the authors themselves), but woe betide anyone who fails to abide by them.
I know that every reader – myself included – brings expectations to a book. My expectations are formed in numerous ways: by the cover, the blurb, the marketing, the genre, and...
July 7, 2015
An Interview here…A review there…
So, what happens when you stick me and Diana Simmonds – author, theatre critic, generally splendid person – in front of a video recorder wielded by Tig Ashton? Well, this rather lovely interview in which we discuss books, biscuits (of course!), barmcakes, and the perfect breakfast. Closed captioning or translation services are available on request, and many thanks to Women & Words for hosting the vid :-)
No Good Reason has also been reviewed by Velvet Lounger (host oftheLesbian Reading Room)...
June 3, 2015
Blogs and Reviews Oh My!
I thought I’d do a bit of a round-up post with links to a couple of blogs I’ve recently written for Bold Strokes sites, and to two lovely advance reviews forNo Good Reason.
The annual UK BSB Fest will take place in Nottingham this coming weekend (6-7th June) and all the attendingauthorshave been blogging on the theme of change over at the official website. My own blog – Everything Old is New Again – is here, and I’ll be in Nottingham on the Saturday only this year, reading from No Good Reason...
May 27, 2015
A Few of my Favourite Things: Food & Swearing
Oh happy days! The Dark Peak series – which kicks offin June withNo Good Reason – sees meback writing in Brit, and not only that but writing a novel whose central characters are a detective and an Accident & Emergency doc. Now, for those who might not know, shift work does weird things to a person’s diet (if you regularly eat your tea at 3 a.m., chances are you’re not sitting down to a balanced three-course meal) and it’s no secret that those of us who work shiftseat a lot of crap or, in the...
May 13, 2015
No Good Reason Giveaway Winners
Many, many thanks to everyone who entered the No Good Reason giveaway over the last few days, it’s been an absolute pleasure to chat biscuits and books with you all. Over 160 people gave me a shout for this one, and the two winners picked by the random number generator are: Julia Schriewer and Mary Ayer.
Congrats to both and cheers again for the enthusiasm about this one :-)
May 7, 2015
No Good Reason Giveaway
Oh! Oh! I got books! Yes, I finally have my grubby mitts on my rather gorgeous author copies of No Good Reason, which can mean only one thing: Its time for a giveaway:-)
To win one of two copies (signed or unsigned) and a delicious bag of Haribo sweets, just leave a comment on this thread – anonymous comments are enabled – or head over to my Facebook page and like the givewaypost on there. Ill pick a winner when I wake up after my nights say around noon on Wednesday (13th May). Bonus points...
