books
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My partner, who is also a writer, was on an author panel at a writing event last year, with a new author called Jo Callahan. Whenever he’s on a panel, he always reads the other authors’ books. When it came to reading Jo’s, he couldn’t put it down and urged me to read it. I
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I met the lovely Graham Bartlett at a writing event this year where we were both teaching. Graham is a former police detective and now writes crime fiction, as well as acting as a police advisor to authors and TV writers. If you need help with your police procedurals or any element of crime fiction,
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My Guest Writer this week is a special friend of mine and a very talented poet. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Gill Hawkins. As it’s near Christmas, she’s sharing a festive poem with us. It’s my favourite poem of hers. I hope you enjoy it. THE LONELINESS OF SNOWMEN BY GILL HAWKINS You
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Heather Beveridge was a guest on my blog a few weeks ago with Mutate, the first book in a trilogy, which she wrote under the pen name of Hetty Waite. If you missed it, you can read it here. I’ve just finished the book and wanted to share my review with you. Here is the
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My guest for this spot this week is the wonderful crime writer Val Penny, who writes the DI Hunter Wilson and DS Jane Renwick series. I first met Val at Swanwick Writers’ Summer School and she’s become a good friend and has been immensely supportive of my writing. As Christmas is coming, it’s only fitting
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I met the very talented crime writer Clare Mackintosh at a book event in the summer. I found it fascinating to hear about her time as a police officer before she became a full-time writer. She also talked about her latest book, A Game of Lies. I was completely hooked at the premise and couldn’t
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Well, I had hoped to be bringing you news that my writing workbooks had been published. Unfortunately, there have been a few hiccups and so it’s going to take a bit longer. But I did get to meet my publishers and also see the covers in person. As they say, patience is a virtue!
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I’ve been meaning to share some exciting book news on my blog, but things have been a bit busy recently. Anyway, the wonderful SpellBound Books Ltd have given me a four-book publication deal for my how-to guides on writing. They’re republishing Short Story Focus and Publication Guaranteed (well, almost!), and my new book Novel Know-how
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