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Coming soon…A Deadly Truth

It’s been a long time coming, but I can finally reveal the cover and blurb of my second novel, A Deadly Truth. Intrepid news reporter Dan Sullivan is back with a new mystery to solve. He’s ably aided and abetted… 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 →

What does it mean for me to be an indie author?

I love being an indie author. Some people may look down on books that aren’t ‘traditionally published’, but I think that it’s fair to say we’ve moved on a long way from just self-publishing. Self-publishing used to have a reputation… Continue Reading →

How to cope in a crazy crisis

We’re into week four of the Coronavirus lockdown (I think) and I think it’s fair to say that it’s a very, very strange time. I don’t know about you, but I’ve completely lost track of the day and the date!… Continue Reading →

What skills do you need to be a writer?

No writer emerges fully formed. It’s that simple. When a writer publishes their first book, it’s rarely actually their first completed work. Instead it will be the product of many, many years of false starts and learning from them. Most… Continue Reading →

The five stages of editing

I wrote recently about how to plan a novel in a week; that is definitely possible. However, I won’t ever claim that it’s possible to edit a novel in a week. In fact, my first two novels took at least… Continue Reading →

How to plan a murder mystery in a week

So, you’ve always wanted to write a novel. You’ve got a great idea buzzing around in your head and you want 2020 to be the year you use it, but you don’t know where to start. Writing a novel is… Continue Reading →

Five ways to boost your creativity

We’re all familiar with that feeling of ‘I want to write but I don’t know where to start’. It can be very difficult and intimidating to come up with new ideas. It can be frustrating when you hear an author… Continue Reading →

How to set writing goals for 2020 – and stick to them

Be honest, how many times have you declared New Year resolutions only for them to fail within a few weeks? It’s no surprise really. There’s a tendency to set very high-level resolutions – lose half a stone, get fit –… Continue Reading →

Creating an audio book

All aspects of self-publishing have been very much of a learning curve for me, but I think putting together an audio book has been the trickiest. I was asked about an audio version of A Deadly Rejection back in 2017… Continue Reading →

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