This week I'm on my final countdown to the 1st of June, when I will join Camp NaNoWriMo and attempt to write the next novel in the Pitkirtly mystery series. I imagine the week will go something like this: 5 (today, Sunday 27th May) Panic about not knowing where to start - try and think …
Introducing Lynda Wilcox
Please welcome my guest for today, Lynda Wilcox, another UK mystery writer. She has just published her new novel 'Strictly Murder' as a Kindle book on Amazon - http://amzn.to/K1MC6U. Lynda talks here about blurbs, which are indeed impossible things to write. Who would have thought summing up all those months of work in two sentences would …
Unseasonal setting
Here's a small clue about what time of year it will be in Pitkirtly when I am next writing about it in June. (no, this isn't a comment about the Scottish summer, although anyone was caught in a hail/snow storm in Edinburgh yesterday might beg to differ)
Adapting to survive
An update to the previous post: I see Camp NaNoWriMo is going to run in June and August this year, so I may have to bring forward the planned Pitkirtly novel to June - or put it back to August. Just in case I decide on June, I've now started on the first phase, which …
Next steps
I've been very pleased so far with the reception given to 'Death at the Happiness Club' so far, and this has encouraged me to adapt my annual writing plan (a very flexible thing at the best of times) so that I can write another Pitkirtly novel in July instead of waiting until November. Of course …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 