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September 23, 2015
Welcome to My New Look Blog
I’m back! And with a great sigh of relief (from me) my blog is up and running again. Yay! I hope you will agree that it’s much cleaner, easier to read, and generally just looks a lot better than before. Being metamorphosed isn’t easy folks and if anyone tries to fool you into believing that such a change around it’s ... Read More
September 4, 2015
Getting Your Head Around the Wordcount
I was planning to write a post today about wordcounts, and how some authors can manage a colossal output. For instance, best selling crime writer, Kerry Wilkinson, produces FOUR of his phenomenally successful DI Jessica Daniel books a year. (I don’t think he sleeps) But the prolific Val McDermid is comfortable with just one of […]
August 17, 2015
Bloody Scotland Short Story Competition – The Shortlist
Six of the Best! If you’re a fan of crime fiction, short stories and great, exciting new authors, then you are in for a treat here. I’m delighted to introduce you to the finalists in the Bloody Scotland Short Story Competition. Six brilliant tales, each of them different, each of them excellent. They have been […]
August 12, 2015
Recent Great Read – And Justice There Is None by Deborah Crombie
Recently read – And Justice There is None by Deborah Crombie Genre: Crime – Police Procedural I’m a fan of Deborah Crombie and have read most of the books in her Gemma James / Duncan Kincaid crime series, but somehow I missed this one. It was a treat to find. Dawn Attwood, the pregnant, beautiful […]
August 6, 2015
How NOT to turn a short story into a novel
Time is something we never have enough of, but for writers those precious hours seem squeezed even more. We have families to look after, cooking, cleaning, chauffeuring children to their various out of school activities. Those of us who are grandparents often have child minding duties…and then there is the odd holiday to squeeze in, […]
July 31, 2015
Fancy hanging around with a sexy, rugged detective?
This post is a complete indulgence for me. I mean, how hard could it be for an author to write about a fictional character she loves – even if it isn’t one she created herself? This is how I feel about Pauline Rowson’s brilliant DI Andy Horton. Life has damaged him, and he’s been dealt […]
July 9, 2015
Make Writing Easy
I’m passionate about writing and like most authors, when given a day with nothing to do but write, it feels like a little slice of heaven. Sadly, when the real world insists on making so many demands on our time the business of writing can often feel like a luxury. So when something comes along […]
June 26, 2015
Auld Reekie or Dear Green Place?
Just back from a wonderful few days in Edinburgh and Glasgow. I don’t think I’ve ever had the opportunity of comparing the two cities before, at least not from immediate first hand experience. And the thing I’ve learned is that there is no comparison. It would be like making a judgement between Taggart and Rebus. […]
June 11, 2015
What’s So Great About Being An Indie Author?
Until this week I’d been happy to self publish all my books exclusively on Amazon. And why not? It takes them into enough global markets to make me dizzy. I knew there were other stores out there where authors could market their eBooks, but I avoided them because the process just seemed too complicated and […]
June 5, 2015
Dracula Was Here!
Whitby, on the North Yorkshire coast – home to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the fishermen’s Gansey, black Jet, Captain Cook, and annual Goth weekends. It is also a delightfully friendly and picturesque fishing port. We were lucky enough to enjoy a visit this week. Here are a few of the things we saw. The Whitby […]
