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Chosen Child – cover reveal
One of the best things about self-publishing is, you get to choose your own cover image. Not that I’m unhappy about my publisher’s choice for my first two books; in fact, until recently, the cover of The Paradise Trees was my favourite. As far as cover images go, self-publishers have two options – a ready-made…
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2015 – The best of times and the worst of times… (a mimimalist’s version)
This time tomorrow, 2015 will be a thing of the past and we’ll all be watching the New Year’s Concert from Vienna. It’s been a year of ups and downs… Best moment: Holding The Attic Room for the first time. Second and third best moments: Holding the audio version of The Cold Cold Sea and…
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Close Encounters of the Malware Kind, or: How to Kill your Computer…
Tuesday morning started off like any other Tuesday morning here in N.E. Switzerland. By eight o’clock I was at my desk overlooking the woods, sorting through the new emails, deleting the junk ones, saving those that had to be answered. First on my main email account, then on gmail. Then I turned my attention to…
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Rhinoceros Graffiti…
The building site along the road is busy – and noisy – these days. They’re pushing hard to get the roof on before winter, so for six days a week we have banging and hammering in the background. Not to mention a horrible whining noise which is apparently the machine that compresses concrete. Part of…
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Toilet roll holders, and other tricky moving-house decisions…
If I had ten franks for every moving-house decision I’ve made in the past two and a bit years I could retire tomorrow, and go and live on a lovely tropical island and write books and watch the sun go down with a Marguerita by my side… In 2013 we downsized from a big old…
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Switzerland… The Rhine Falls
It’s a murky autumn day here in N.E. Switzerland – the leaves are falling and we can see Lake Constance from the flat again. Ours is the second largest lake in the country, vaguely fish-shaped, with Germany along the northern bank, Switzerland to the south, and Austria in the east. The Rhine flows into the…
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Sun, sand and… sculptures!
It’s been an amazing summer here in the top right corner of Switzerland (once we got past June…) Here on our glorious lake, we’re able to enjoy all the summer advantages of this very international – I can see both Germany and Austria from my flat – region. Here’s a two-minute video showing the area…
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The Name Game – or, what (not) to call your characters…
We’ve talked before about the problems people face finding the right name for their children and animals. But for writers, name-finding problems don’t stop there; they carry straight on into the tricky task of finding good names for our characters. With the first book it’s easy – you can choose names you like that fit…
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The Attic Room video trailer
Son 2 and I have been busy making a new trailer. I found and downloaded the images, wrote the text, organised the credits, chose the music and put everything into MovieMaker. He pulled it all together and tweaked the timing. The result is below: The Attic Room, available on 22nd July. Amazon UK Amazon US…
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Bats in the attic…
Attics are constantly on my mind these days, in the run-up to publishing my third book, The Attic Room. Our old house had a lovely attic room – sloping wooden roof, small and spidery window, dark corners full of old boxes containing Great-grandma’s crockery… It was the perfect place to keep all those things we…
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