Cecilia Peartree – woman of mystery
setting the scene in Pitkirtly
As well as being even busier than usual, my life has taken on a surreal tinge, and if I believed in a supernatural power then he would take the shape of Salvador Dali rather than the bearded deity people usually picture. While waiting for a family member to get ready for his custard pie, made …
The title of this blog post may be slightly misleading. I am physically in my usual writing spot, the conservatory, looking out somewhat apprehensively to see if snow has started to fall yet, which I'm very much hoping it doesn't, although there was suspicious-looking low white cloud over the Pentland Hills, which I can more …
As I write the closing scenes of the novel I really meant to finish by the end of April, my mind has already moved on into June, when (in my imagination anyway) I will have published it, which means I will then have time to go back to the historical novel on my computer and …
I like to use this limbo between Christmas and New Year to get organised for the year ahead, although the time tends to be taken up instead by a mad rush to fill in my tax return, an excess of sleep and biscuits, and more often than not by some sort of family emergency. This …
Alex Perry ('son of Cecilia') has just published his first novel, 'The War of Undoing'*. Although this is a massive fantasy novel and completely different from anything of mine and so in some ways it doesn't fit into my blog very well, I thought I would write something about what it's like to have two writers …
I would quite like to spend all my time in Pitkirtly. It seems a pleasant enough place, apart from all the suspicious deaths and the weather, and once you get used to the people they are fairly friendly. I've always wanted to live by the sea as well, at least when I haven't wanted to …
No, that isn't a novel title, although having said that it looks a bit as if it could either have a cold war spy theme, or be some sort of bio-thriller. I just thought I would say something about why I always have to leave my writing to lie around doing nothing for a while once …
I'm spending the morning recharging batteries. Not my own, for once. I feel well and truly recharged after my Nordic tour, though as usual it's anybody's guess how long that feeling will last. I'm just preparing to go away for approximately 36 hours so I thought I'd better make sure my Kindle(s) and phone were …
We seem to have reached the end of a week of glorious sunshine in Edinburgh, which coincided with my holiday week and the arrival of a new camera. I even found the first bluebell of spring starting to open out in our garden. I am not sure if it will risk opening fully as the …
I wrote here a while ago about my obsession with trains. I'm afraid this is about to become even more pronounced, as I am in the middle of making bookings for another train safari round Europe. I have decided to give into the obsession instead of trying to fight it any more, so I've set …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 