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Category Archives: books
New book on the way! #amwriting #travel And it’s set by a lake in Switzerland…
Several years ago now, I self-published the Lakeside Hotel series, five feel-good novellas about Stacy from Cheshire and Rico from N.E. Switzerland. It was fun, and a restful contrast to my rather gloomier psychological suspense fiction, but I always felt … Continue reading
2022… The best of times and the worst of times #NewYear
If anything taught us that nothing lasts forever, it was 2022. The moment we got used to the covid numbers going down, up they went again. As soon as we were accustomed to calling one person ‘the prime minister’, someone … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life
Tagged 2022, books, crime fiction, feel-good fiction, Happy New Year, Hobeck Books, reading, Writing
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Maureen Myant
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts, The Writing Life
Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Maureen Myant, reading, The Confession, Wordsworth
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Mixed news… #books
This is the blog post that should have gone out last week, after the scheduled release of my new book The Un-Family on the 14th. The bad news is, due to an Amazon glitch (they needed proof – twice – … Continue reading
Posted in books, My books, The Writing Life
Tagged animals, crime fiction, Hobeck Books, publishing process, The Un-Family
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Georgia Rose
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts
Tagged Georgia Rose, guest post, James Herriot, Jane Austen, Writing
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Jane Cable
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
New Book… #amwriting #coverreveal
And here it is, the sensational cover image for my new book, The Un-Family, which will be published on November 15th. Big thanks here to Hobeck Books and their cover designer Jayne Mapp, who also designed the images for Daria’s … Continue reading
Classic Comfort Reads… with Rae Sargeant
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts
Tagged crimefiction, Her Deadly Friend, Hobeck Books, Kate Atkinson, Rachel Sargeant, Rae Sargeant
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Happy publication day, Helen Pryke! #books
I’m very pleased to have a publication day post on the blog today as the fifth novel in Helen Pryke’s Healers series comes out. I’ve read all these books and can thoroughly recommend them.Over to Helen to tell us a … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts
Tagged Helen Pryke, historical ficion, the Healers series, Writing
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#amwriting in a heatwave… #summer ’22
It’s been hottish, these past few weeks. I’ve often wished my ‘writing cave’ was a real cave, deep in a windswept cliff, perhaps, with lovely cold water running down the walls and bats flapping in and out. Or maybe not. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life
Tagged Book Lover's Companion, Hobeck Books, Louise Mangos, podcast, Writing
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