Month: February 2016

  • The lost pen…

    Last autumn, on the way home from Zürich on the train, I found a pen. It had fallen between the seat and the carriage wall, and presumably its owner hadn’t noticed because I was able to fish it up quite easily. It was a Paper Mate, but not one of the gold-plated kind so I…

  • Paperback!

    Chosen Child is now available in paperback! It’s a lovely paperback, thanks to Debbie at The Cover Collection, and in one respect this one’s different to my others because it has a glossy finish, which really shows off that lovely turquoise. Purchase links: Amazon UK  Amazon US Amazon Germany (or your local Amazon store) Thank…

  • Halfway…

    It’s eBook publication week for Chosen Child, and halfway through the blog tour we have a slight hiccup… Today’s post should be coming from Jane Isaac’s Caffeine’s not a Crime blog, however, at the end of last week her entire website disappeared into cyberspace. It’s back now but not yet functioning properly, so we agreed…

  • Chosen Child is published!

    I’m really pleased that my fourth book – another psychological thriller – is now available to download on kindle or other devices with an app. A few bits and pieces about the book: From the first word on the first page of the first draft, until today, it took almost exactly sixteen months to complete.…

  • The A B C of writing a book… (only slightly tongue-in-cheek)

    Please note, this is not a list of instructions – that needs no A B C. To write a book, ‘all’ you need to do, according to a cartoon doing the rounds on social media, is: Sit. Stay. Write. This is a list of other important bookish points. A is for…   Yes. Well. A is…