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Taking Stock

The lull between Christmas and New Year is that time when I sometimes have a chance to reflect on the previous twelve months before taking a deep breath and launching on the next. In retail terms it is called ‘stocktaking‘ … Continue reading →

The Key

It’s been a hectic couple of months and it seems like ages since I wrote anything meaningful here, but the other evening I sat in Rochester Cathedral listening to the service of nine lessons and carols, and this piece by … Continue reading →

Wood For The Trees

We went hunting for a Christmas tree this weekend. Our annual trek to the wilds of Kent (anywhere beyond Medway is blissful wilderness) took us to our favorite tree farm – Kingswood, near Maidstone. The farmer greeted us with immense … Continue reading →

Writing Retreat

Writing Retreat

  I confess that I had a fair degree of trepidation when author Pen Wilcock first suggested the idea of  a writing weekend for authors led by herself, publisher Tony Collins, and me. I’ve run a writing group for a … Continue reading →

Changing Perspectives

  In a recent conversation with a psychiatrist (not as a patient, I might add) as I work on Rope Of Sand, I had a bit of a revelation: it occurred to me that I like people. It’s not that I didn’t realise this … Continue reading →

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

‘”It would be so easy just to stay there, submerged and warm where the world couldn’t touch me and I would’t have to face tomorrow, or the next day, or the next. So easy. To let go. Painless. Quick.”‘

Following the vicious attack that nearly killed her and reeling from the discovery that mysterious Matthew Lynes – the man with whom she has inadvertently and irresistibly fallen in love – is lying, historian, Emma D’Eresby flees the college in Maine for her ancient home town in England. With her she carries a precious Seventeenth-century journal and the secrets bound within its pages. Once home, she comes to terms with a shattering revelation, and, just when she thinks she has the answers, faces a future where past and present collide.

Set in England and in Maine, USA and steeped in history and atmosphere, Death Be Not Proud – the second book of The Secret Of The Journal series – continues the romantic mystery begun in Mortal Fire as Emma and Matthew reveal the turbulent truth of his past.

Death Be Not Proud, Book 2 in The Secret Of The Journal series, published by Lion Fiction, April, 2013

‘Dunn vividly evokes a range of characters and the tense and tender relationships between them.’ Fay Sampson, award-winning author, The Hunted Hare.

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The Art and Science Of Writing Science Fiction

Joining me this week, author Martin Willoughby – starfish of his literary firmament – takes us on a journey of discovery into the outer regions of writing Science Fiction. Every genre has its rules and Science Fiction (SF) is no … Continue reading →

Radio Interviews or On the Wisdom of Eating Cheesecake.

This morning I had my first radio interview since becoming an author, and I thought I would post a quick blog on the experience given the exchange of interesting comments yesterday on FB in anticipation of the event. Okay, so … Continue reading →

Is It Really Worth It?

Someone asked me the other day whether it was worth having a book launch? After all, it is takes a lot of preparation, could be seen as a distraction from the job of writing (and, in my case, running a … Continue reading →