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Saving the Lakeside Hotel
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Daria’s Daughter
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The Runaway
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The Cold Cold Sea
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Cornwall…
…is the setting for my second novel. Which, as of today, is also my seventh novel… The Cold Cold Sea was re-released today with a fab new cover by The Cover Collection – I love it! I have lovely memories … Continue reading
Posted in books, My books, The Writing Life, travel
Tagged Amazon, blog tour, Carbis Bay, Cornwall, cream tea, Love Books Group, Newquay, psychological suspense, St Ives, The Cold Cold Sea, the cover collection, Writing
4 Comments
Feel-good fiction for Doctors without Borders… special offer!
It feels like a long time ago since February, when my charity anthology, The Saturday Secret came out, published by Fabrian Books. 2017 profits from this book are going to Doctors without Borders, who do excellent work where it’s needed … Continue reading
Posted in My books, The Writing Life
Tagged Amazon, charity book, Doctors without Borders, kindle deal, special offer, The Saturday Secret
8 Comments
Buster & Moo: Everything in its place
One day a few years ago, I was searching around on Twitter and came across Geoff Le Pard. His then-new book title was attention-grabbing: Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle. After a brief Twitter-chat, I went to look at his blog, … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts
Tagged Amazon, Buster and Moo, Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle, Geoff Le Pard, London, My Father and Other Liars, new release, Writing
21 Comments
Travelling back to Greece with Abby Foulkes
Today I’m delighted to welcome Alison Gray back to the blog. Her last three books take us from Greece to England – and with the recently-published third in the series, Forget-me-not Blues, back to Greece again. Here’s Alison to tell … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts
Tagged Alison Gray, Amazon, crime fiction, Forget-me-not Blues, Greece, Hibiscus Fruit, Lady's Slipper, new release
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Cheers, slàinte, and prost!
It’s a triple book celebration today here in N.E. Switzerland – one of them entirely by coincidence. First of all, happy publication day to The Saturday Secret, my first-ever feel-good, romantic-ish collection of short stories. I’ve been wanting to do … Continue reading
Posted in My books, The Writing Life
Tagged Amazon, audiobooks, Chosen Child, Fabrian Books, Oakhill Publishing, The Saturday Secret
16 Comments
Books Without Borders….
Standing in my living room this morning, I can see into three different countries. Switzerland, Germany, Austria. It’s fun, living in borderland. In summer we take the ferry across the lake to Friedreichshafen once or twice a month, to stroll … Continue reading
Lost: the weather. A Very British Blog Post…
Here in Switzerland, it’s a well-known fact that British people like talking about the weather – and let’s face it; the weather gives us something different to say several times a day. But this year, it’s conversation topic number one … Continue reading
Posted in Life in Switzerland
Tagged Amazon, Chosen Child, Linda Huber Pinterest, Scotland, weather, winter
6 Comments
Numbers, and £££, and an auction…
Writers work with words. That’s a fact, but numbers play a part too. Not only do we have sales figures and the dreaded Amazon rankings to contend with, we have to think about price and profit and tax returns and … Continue reading
Posted in My books, The Writing Life
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, auction, Bloodwise, Chosen Child, crime writer, Facebook, self-publishing, social media, The Cold Cold Sea, Writing
10 Comments
The Writing Life: Getting paid…
Hybrid writers, they say, have the best of both worlds. I’m not sure that’s true – I think we have the pros but also the cons of both traditional and self-publishing. Take getting paid… I have two traditionally published books. … Continue reading
Posted in The Writing Life
Tagged Amazon, bank cheques, getting paid, hybrid publishing, self-publishing, traditional publishing
14 Comments
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 … Continue reading
Posted in books, The Writing Life
Tagged am writing, Amazon, book trailer, books, champagne, Chosen Child, Facebook, Kindle, pre-order, publication, social media, Twitter
15 Comments