Cecilia Peartree – woman of mystery
setting the scene in Pitkirtly
Thanks to everyone who has bought ‘Promenade with Death’. I am pleased with the good start it has had, though I feel quite disloyal to it now that I have jumped straight back into writing another novel. Although my plans don’t always come to fruition, and certainly not as quickly as I would like, I …
This afternoon I've just passed the 20,000 word mark in my first draft of 'Pitkirtly XIV' - it now has an almost definite title but I had better not reveal it until it's 100% definite. Originally it was supposed to have the word 'witch' somewhere in it, because I hope to release it round about …
First of all, thank you again to anyone who has bought a copy of 'Unpredictable Events', which I am happy to say is still doing quite well and has had some lovely reviews. I wouldn't exactly say that last night I dreamed I went to Pitkirtly again, but I can't help looking forward to writing …
I was going to illustrate this post with a picture of my plan for the month, which now includes a mini-plan for the rest of the year as well, but I realised just in time that I'd scrawled an idea for Pitkirtly XIV on the corner of the page in my planning notebook. Some people …
I was just wondering whether to share some of my background research for 'A Quest in Berlin' when I suddenly remembered my Pinterest board. I am never quite sure about Pinterest as I've struggled to find a use for it in the past and my first few boards had clunky titles like 'Places where I …
I've spent the past few weeks, or at least the parts of them that haven't been taken up with going for therapeutic walks followed by even more therapeutic lie-downs, finding excuses to go out to lunch, and emergency vet's appointments, editing 'A Quest in Berlin', the next novel in the Quest series. Today, to the …
Before plunging back into the dark world of Berlin in the 1950s to finish my November novel 'A Quest in Berlin', I decided to work on something a bit lighter, and 'Pitkirtly on Tour', now published on Amazon and Smashwords (and eventually destined to reach Kobo, iBooks, B&N and so on), is the result. It's …
This post is part of a historical fiction promotion by a number of writers on the 12th and 13th of November 2016. Here are some links to take you to cheap and free ebooks that fall into the historical category: The 99cent Historical Fiction eBooks http://www.histfiction.com/history-blog/99-cent-historical-fiction-promotions The free Historical Fiction: Free Historical Fiction eBooks http://www.histfiction.com/history-blog/free-historical-fiction You …
The significance of the first of November, which unfortunately falls on a Tuesday this year, is of course that it's the first day of the annual trial of strength known as National Novel Writing Month. When I say trial of strength, I really mean it's a trial of persistence and stubbornness against all odds. I …
While we all (including me) wait for 'Pitkirtly XII' to be finished, I thought I would write a bit about how I keep track of the characters in the Pitkirtly mystery series. This was something I didn't even think about until I had already written at least six of the books. It was only then …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 