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What might have happened if R Kelly had been a member of a writer’s workshop

Posted on February 27, 2017 by

In today’s writing workshop, we’re going to look at  R Kelly’s Ignition (remix)  I enjoyed reading this piece of work and can certainly see that there’s a rhythm to the way you use words. I particularly liked the bouncing, tooting and … Continue reading →

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What is crime fiction?

Posted on September 17, 2016 by

This week, on a course about Crime Fiction, we were asked the question ‘what is crime fiction?’ You’d have thought we’d know, since we’d signed up for a fairly significant chunk of education on the subject, but it was harder … Continue reading →

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Keeping on keeping on 

Posted on January 19, 2016 by

It’s heading up for a decade since I was first published and there have been ups and downs but there is much to celebrate. There are a number of landmark celebration blog posts on their way. But in the meantime, … Continue reading →

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The Ugly Truth of Publishing & How BEST to Support Writers

Posted on January 6, 2016 by

Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
Original Image via Flickr Creative Commons, courtesy of Anurag Agnihotri Well, I figure I have one more day to drunkenly torch my platform. Sad thing is I don’t drink. I am apparently this…

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THE TROLL at Christmas: Post 2

Posted on December 20, 2015 by

My apologies, folks. I had promised to post this yesterday and ended up out with friends for most of the day and all evening. So here it is now. Chapter 1 of the the first novella in my TROLL series. … Continue reading →

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The Troll at Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2015 by

If you are a regular reader of this blog, or my facebook and twitter feeds, then you won’t have been able to miss that, this year, I wrote and published a trilogy of thriller novellas called THE TROLL. What you might not know is … Continue reading →

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So, you want to be a writer?

Posted on October 3, 2015 by

I came across a video on YouTube today, a TED talk by Nathan Filer that pretty much said everything about writing a first novel that I would ever want to say. It’s perfect. You can watch it yourself, below. But … Continue reading →

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In other news. The Troll.

Posted on September 21, 2015 by

The latest book in my TROLL series is out now, on Amazon. To celebrate, the first book is currently free on Amazon UK, and the second is reduced to 99p. Fill yer boots, ducks. If you’re USA based, watch this … Continue reading →

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Pigs, trolls and other stories

Posted on September 21, 2015 by

Okay, so I was hoping to bring out my third book in THE TROLL series of novellas on a slow news day. Just goes to show you can’t plan these things… In a way, though, it’s apt, with the whole … Continue reading →

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Protecting us from the threats of poetry

Posted on September 12, 2015 by

Today I read the prime minister’s ‘vision for a smarter state’ and, as I glanced across the page, I misread a line about how he intended to protect us from ‘terrorism, poetry and climate change’. It actually said poverty, which … Continue reading →

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