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it doesn’t work ‘just like that’
Posted on December 10, 2021 Leave a Comment
WARNING: There will be spoilers ahead for the SATC reboot ‘And Just Like That’ so please stop reading now if you don’t want to read such things! It’s been a while, dear reader, since I was moved to write a blog post. This almost feels like going back in time to the more innocent days […]
The Pitcher and Piano
Posted on September 3, 2019 Leave a Comment
Tonight, it’s another location from the book and, actually, another pub. This one’s the Pitcher and Piano, a converted church that is one of the most beautiful bars in the city. This pub sits at the top of the same cliff where the Loggerheads nestles at the bottom. As pubs go, the two places couldn’t […]
The Loggerheads Pub
Posted on September 2, 2019 Leave a Comment
The Loggerheads is one of my major settings in Dead Flowers. In fact, more action takes place there than anywhere else in this Nottingham-set novel. The first reviews are in and they’ve been lovely, which makes me very happy. One of my favourite comments so far was from The Bookbag about the setting. “Monaghan’s other […]
Elvis
Posted on September 1, 2019 Leave a Comment
My new novel, Dead Flowers, is out later this week. In the run up to its release, I’m going to post a short blog every day about an aspect of the story. Today is all about Elvis. Elvis is my main character Sian’s dog, a retired cadaver dog who used to help the police find […]
What might have happened if R Kelly had been a member of a writer’s workshop
Posted on February 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
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 beeping, which are lots of fun and encourage participation with the text. That said, I […]
What is crime fiction?
Posted on September 17, 2016 Leave a Comment
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 to answer than you might expect. It was really quite a clever bit of teaching, […]
Keeping on keeping on
Posted on January 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
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, here’s my latest YouTube video. Stephen King, showing how it’s done. A completely natural storyteller. […]
The Ugly Truth of Publishing & How BEST to Support Writers
Posted on January 6, 2016 Leave a Comment
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 stupid when sober 😛 . Actually I am writing this as a follow up for…
THE TROLL at Christmas: Post 2
Posted on December 20, 2015 Leave a Comment
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. Chapter 2 will be up early evening today. Enjoy… The book is currently available on amazon […]
The Troll at Christmas
Posted on December 18, 2015 Leave a Comment
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 that the first story in the series is a Christmas story. Perhaps not quite so […]
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