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October 28, 2014
The post-edit lull
There’s a very good reason I haven’t blogged since the summer – I’ve been bogged down in editing…well, I could say hell but, because I suspect my editor might read this, I’ll say ‘challenges’. Basically, after I received her feedback on the first draft of Last Girl Standing I decided that what the book needed was a brand new thread and an additional 40,000 words. Oh, and at least 20,000 cutting from the original thread. And that’s what I’ve been doing for the last three months – writing, cutt...
August 23, 2014
Crime festivals, Cornwall and covers…
July and August have been incredibly busy. From 17th-20th July I went to Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Festival in Harrogate. The festival is legendary amongst the crime fraternity and I’ve been desperate to go for years. This year the planets aligned and I boarded a train from Bristol to Harrogate via Leeds and spent a long weekend indulging in crime, crime and more crime.
Someone taking a reading break at Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Festival, Harrogate 2014.
My stash of freebies (top row...
July 22, 2014
The HarperCollins Summer Party
Earlier this month I attended the Harper Collins summer party and what a glittering event it was. I arrange to meet up with fellow HC authors Michelle Gorman, Katy Regan and Fionnuala Kearney in the hotel opposite the V&A before the party began – partly so we could garner dutch courage but also so we could have a proper chat before we were swept into the party maelstrom. And what a maelstrom it was – the noise hit us the second we walked through the doors!
Fionnuala and I set off trying to loo...
July 21, 2014
Behind the scenes of the City of London: a writers’ tour
On 28th June I was lucky enough to be invited on a behind the scenes tour of the City of London with fellow authors Rowan Coleman, Joseph Connelly, Samantha Shannon and Louisa Young.
We met our guide and Andrew from the City of London Public Relations Office on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral and were taken on possibly the most astonishing tour I’ve ever been on.
We started by exploring the Square Mile – so many unknown treasures to be discovered…
A monument to the civilians who died in WWII.
Th...
June 24, 2014
100,000 copies of The Accident sold!
Today I received the wonderful news that the combined ebook and paperback sales of The Accident now top 101,000! That figure is beyond my wildest dreams and I can’t quite believe it.
Fortuitously, today was also the day I’d arranged to have lunch with Avon publisher Caroline Ridding so we celebrated in Bristol’s only Michelin starred restaurant Casamia. It was such a treat. Seventeen different tasters and each one utterly delicious.
Casamia summer menu 2014
The textures, flavours and taste sensa...
May 28, 2014
Gdzie kończy się cisza? – the Polish edition of The Accident
One of my favourite things about being an author is receiving the foreign editions of my novels in the post. Often I’ll have no idea what the title is, or what the cover looks like, until I open the parcel. That happened this morning – when I received a parcel from my Polish publishers.
Polish edition of The Accident.
Their title Gdzie kończy się cisza translates as ‘Where Does the Silence End?’ and it’s pretty close to the original title, ‘An End to Silence’ and I adore the cover. It’s very Sa...
