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First book in the Escape to Switzerland series:
Saving the Lakeside Hotel
‘Armchair travel at its best!’
Cass Grafton
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Stolen Sister
‘A family drama with an emotional depth I’ve not come across for a while.’
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Daria’s Daughter
‘Chillingly suspenseful…‘
Carmen Radtke
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The Un-Family
‘A brilliant read & highly recommended’
Deb Day -
The Cold Cold Sea
‘An emotional read, a turbulent read.’
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Cover Love – with Helen Pryke… #books #amreading
I read once that the main purpose of a book cover is to attract the reader’s attention. Obviously, it should have something to do with the subject of the book too – you wouldn’t put an image of a vegetable … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Helen Pryke, reading, Writing
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Two days (approximately) to go… #newbook
It’s back to crossed fingers here in N.E. Switzerland – if everything goes according to plan, Return to the Lakeside Hotel will be available at the beginning of the week, and both books will be on offer at 99p for … 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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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
Book news! #amwriting #crimefiction
About ten days ago, a contract arrived in N.E. Switzerland. I signed, and sent it back to crime fiction publisher Hobeck Books, where it arrived on Friday. So now it’s official – book twelve is on the way, and I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged books, crime fiction, Hobeck Books, publishing, Writing
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I #amwriting, #travel in Switzerland and a Chill award!
It’s been a busy week here in N.E Switzerland. On Monday, I travelled to Zürich to meet up with writing friends Louise Mangos – who’s coming on the blog later this month with her choice of Classic Comfort books – … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life, travel
Tagged Alison Baillie, books, editing, Hobeck Books, Louise Mangos, Writing
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Polly Heron
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
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Tagged books, Classic Comfort, Polly Heron, Susanna Bavin, The Surplus Girls
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Can you read English? #joke
This was originally going to be a post about books. However, we’ll leave that for next week when I can spill all my news at once, and instead, we’ll have a post about English. Specifically, reading English. A few weeks … Continue reading
Google searches this week…
The internet is a blessing when you’re writing a book. I often wonder how writers managed before the www was part of daily life. For your main research, it’s usually more helpful to go and look at whatever you need … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, Scotland, The Writing Life
Tagged books, Isle of Skye, Writing
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The ‘Q’ books… #A-Z books 📚
First of all, apologies for the somewhat homemade appearance of the blog this week; the new WordPress block editor has arrived and I can’t get the classic version back. (If anyone has an idiot’s guide to the new version, please … Continue reading