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Blog postI remember saying it took many years for me to open up to my colleagues and tell them I was a writer. That was partly because I’m still shy of mentioning that little fact, but mostly it was because I thought my writing was shit. God help me if anyone I knew actually got hold of a copy!
When I began writing in the 80s, I wrote for me. Of course I submitted my stories but they earned so many rejection slips that I could’ve decorate
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Blog postIdeas and Execution Ideas
Ideas don’t come to me easily. I usually get a small part of a scene only – I think my muse just likes to see me sweat. From it I have to grow an entire book. It usually happens on the fly too because I’m not good with planning things out. Far too often I’ll put a character into a situation only for something completely different to happen.
Do you remember the scene in Ledston Luck where Eddie stays behind after a briefing to give Cooper a piece of h -
Blog postI’ve split this blog post into two halves because I wanted to tell you about the new book but without spoilers until you’d had a chance to read it first. Come to think of it, I’ll put the rest of this post on the website under the tab The Story of… > The Death of Jessica Ripley (Spoilers). But I’ll only do that after publication. Ner.
The Death of Jessica Ripley was born in March 2017 in a caravan in Skipsea on the North East coa
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Blog postAs You Were…
The last time my back catalogue looked like this was summertime 2017, before I went with Bloodhound Books and took all of my CSI Eddie Collins books down from Amazon and the other platforms.
So now I’m back doing this stuff all by myself again. And I look around and see all of the old books back just as they were, with one or two differences. I took the opportunity to update the website address on all of the covers. I didn’t update the author photo though – I’ve decid -
Blog postI was going to begin this blog post by saying, “I can’t believe this is the first blog post since May of this year!” But I won’t say that because I can believe it.
2018 has been one of the most intensively busy years I’ve ever lived through. It’s also been one of the strangest. It’s been strange because I achieved my dream of becoming an author published by a bona fide publishing company. And then I realised that the grass isn’t
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Blog postStory Execution – (contains spoilers)
This is my answer to a recent question posed on the Advance Readers Team on Facebook. Click here to go to the page. Here is that question: Can you tell us how you develop a novel plot?
I find neither the ideas nor the execution easy.
Ideas don’t come to me easily. I usually get a small part of a scene only – I think my muse just likes to see me sweat. From it I have to grow an entire book. I
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Blog postI cannot believe that this is my first blog post of 2018! Where has all the time gone?
Such a lot has happened over the last few months that I hardly know where to begin.
The End of Lies, over three months since its release, continues to do well. On Goodreads it has 455 ratings and 154 reviews with an average of 4.2, and in the US the latest of its 144 reviews says, “This is one of the best psychological thrillers I’ve ever read”
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Blog postFrom 1985, when I first started writing, right up until 2002 (or thereabouts) I dreamed about getting an agent and getting a publisher. Back then it was really the only way to go if you wanted to be a serious writer. And I did. In 2001 I hit the jackpot and landed a well-respected London-based agent.
It was hell.
He read and loved A Long Time Dead, and set me up with an editor. We all three got along quite well. I’m not sure what
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Blog postAlso known as Operation Shitmepants.
Over this last week or two, so many people have asked, “What’s it like?” They’re wondering what publishing a book is like, not whatever it was you were thinking. Go wash your mind out with soap and water.
The day of publication will be a massive rush. I’ll sit here watching the reviews trickle in (hopefully) and read each one carefully, trying to catch a trend. It honestly is a rush. In the
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Blog postA lot has happened since May, and what follows is a resume of those two months.
The latest CSI Eddie Collins novel, provisionally entitled The Death of Jessica Ripley continues to gather dust on the shelf here in the Writing Pad. I began it in March and blitzed through the first 25k words feeling excited and looking forward to seeing how Eddie handles his latest crisis. I can’t wait to get back on with it because it has the poten
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A Long Time Dead (SOCO Roger Conniston Book 1)
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