Author of the Allensbury Mysteries

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It’s arrived – A Killer Christmas

It’s been an epic journey getting A Killer Christmas from the bare bones of the idea, through the notebook pages and laptop and out onto the virtual book shelves. Late last year I was talking to my dad about The… Continue Reading →

Planning: the danger of too much

I wrote confidently earlier in the year that I was certain that because I’d carefully plotted and planned my third book then it made the process smoother and had created a better book. How wrong I was. Because I’d known… Continue Reading →

Hitting the halfway point

I’m just over one month into my stint as a full-time writer and so far it’s been a roaring success! I’ve had a very successful month and I’m already past the halfway point in the book. Despite a two-week holiday… Continue Reading →

Where did A Deadly Rejection come from?

This year I’m going to be contributing a post every month to the A Lover of Books blog. Here’s what I wrote in February:  When you’re starting out as a writer, one of the first pieces of advice you’re given… Continue Reading →

My writing journey

This year I’m going to be contributing a post every month to the A Lover of Books blog. Here’s what I wrote in January: If you’d asked me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up,… Continue Reading →

Top tips for attending a writing event

Next weekend is the event known in crime writing circles as ‘Harrogate’. Whenever crime writers meet the question that almost always come up is ‘Are you doing Harrogate?’. For non-crime writers this means the Theakstons Crime Writing Festival, which takes… Continue Reading →

Where do you get your ideas?

I’m sure every author’s heart sinks when they’re asked the question ‘So, where do you get your ideas?’. It’s as if the speaker suspects that there’s an ideas shop where we go to buy them. But we all know that… Continue Reading →

Writer’s advice: Write what you know

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you’re afraid about. Cec Murphy I read this quote on a post on the ‘Write to Done’ blog and found it to be extremely pertinent. As… Continue Reading →

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