I'd just like to announce that November will be Fifties month on this blog. In case you haven't already discovered this elsewhere, I'm planning to write a novel set in the 1950s for NaNoWriMo. The working title is 'The Lion and Unicorn Quest' but absolutely no unicorns will be harmed during the first draft. I …
Help, I can’t stop writing!
It's quite unusual for me not to be able to stop writing, in fact I often have trouble starting, as regular readers will be aware. But this time I am having to add extra chapters to cope with all the action that's going on, and I still haven't got to the final one where everything …
Hey presto!
As proof of the efficacy of leaving a novel to marinate, I woke up this morning with a new idea which should make more sense of the whole thing. All I have to do now is to write it all down! (yes, that's the hard part) 'Frozen in Crime' has been sitting on my computer …
Under blue skies
As I wait for my novel to marinate, I've mostly been stuck indoors looking at rain pouring on to the conservatory roof, but today I should be able to get on with some long-postponed gardening which I am hoping will encourage me to mull over the story-line and come up with some inspired improvements! Of …
31,000 words in
I hope Pitkirtly fans will be pleased to hear I'm now well into the 5th novel in my mystery series. Already the vague plot that was in my head has mutated into something rather different, and I am slightly dreading but also looking forward to the next scene I have to write, which looks like …
Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen – mystery writer
I'm happy to welcome a guest to my blog today. Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen is a Danish mystery writer whose characters are from the town of 'Knavesborough' - though by the sound of it they would be equally at home in Pitkirtly. Now over to Dorte: First, a warm thank you to Cecilia for inviting me …
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Countdown to a novel
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 …
Writing a series
I've just released the latest novel in my mystery series, entitled 'Death at the Happiness Club'. I'm very fond of my Pitkirtly characters and I intend to write at least one book a year about them until I'm not fond of them any more! Every time I start on a new mystery novel I find …
