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New Book News – when fate lends a hand…
It was sheer coincidence. A few weeks ago, I sat down at my pc one evening and opened up Facebook to see what was happening in the world according to my FB friends. First thing I saw was a post … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life
Tagged Facebook, Hobeck Books, video, Writing
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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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A visit to Tuscany…
Writer Helen Pryke and I ‘met’ on social media quite recently, and I was interested to see she lives in the north of Italy – not a million miles from N.E. Switzerland. For obvious reasons, we didn’t manage a visit … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts, travel
Tagged Helen Pryke, Italy, The Healer's Secret, travel, Tuscany, Writing
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(Almost) Silent Sunday…
Autumn is inching ever closer here in N.E. Switzerland – but summer’s still putting up a fight. And Death Wish is in the middle of a make-over, with a lovely new cover image. Big thanks to The Cover Collection, brilliant … Continue reading
How (not) to name your minor characters…
I may be having problems with my current work-in-progress… Draft one was completed and polished a few months ago and went to my fabulous editor for the first edit. (Edit 1 is mainly about the plot, structure and character development) … Continue reading
A visit from Cass Grafton
I first met Cass on social media, but given that we both live in – roughly speaking – the same area in lovely Switzerland, it wasn’t long before we met up in person. Since then, we’ve been meeting regularly to … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts, travel
Tagged Cass Grafton, Cornwall, romance, Switzerland, The Cottage in a Cornish Cove, Writing
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The ‘J’ books… #A-Z books 📚
This is an adaptation of something I saw on Twitter – people were posting 26 books in 26 days, each title beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. Don’t worry – I’m planning on taking around 26 months to … Continue reading
Posted in books, The Writing Life
Tagged Elly Griffiths, Jane Eyre, Little Women, reading, The Janus Stone, Writing
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The Writing Life: 5 things on my desk…
Around ninety-five per cent of my writing is done at my desk. It’s not a very tidy desk, but it’s at a window overlooking a wood, so the view is spectacular in all seasons. On the photo, taken from my … Continue reading
Posted in Life in Switzerland, The Writing Life
Tagged crime fiction, feel-good fiction, Writing
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Coming soon – book nine. 📘 And two goodbyes…
Who was it said that writing a book is a marathon and not a sprint? Two or three years ago, an idea started jogging around in my head. A couple of news stories had been hitting the headlines, about people … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornwall, Liechtenstein, Mary Higgins Clark, new book, St Ives, Writing
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Technology (or not) for writers…
I’m not what you’d call technologically gifted. In fact, I’d probably have been a lot happier writing books back in the days when you did it with a quill and inky fingers. That being impractical nowadays, I’ve had to get … Continue reading