First of all, here's the Amazon UK link to buy 'The Body on the Hill' which will now work for a paperback version as well as the ebook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GH11Z144 I also now have a link for non-Amazon sales (ebooks only at present). At the time of writing, this link covers Smashwords, Apple, Kobo and Barnes …
Backwards and Forwards
This is a post of two halves, with a little extra bit in the middle - you can skip to the heading 'Big Announcement' if you like. As I began to think about planning for 2026, I realised that this was also a good time to reflect on 2025, and also that January itself is …
Inching Gradually Forwards
(I have a feeling I've used this post title before - inching gradually is often the only way I can make any kind of progress!) Although I knew I would probably not be able to do a lot of writing during my scheduled hospital stay, I didn't realise there would be absolutely none, and very …
The Horse with Two Names
Here's a quick update on my writing progress. First of all, having reached the end of the first draft of 'Heiress in Exile' I am now gradually working through some edits, which this time seem largely to consist of changing people's names (and the names of houses in one or two cases) which I had …
End of Year Report – Writing Version
It's the last day of 2024 as I write this. A lot has happened in my life this past year, and I have covered some of the other stuff in a post on my McCallum Ogilvy blog. But basically, although I've had to cut down on some other activities, I seem to have managed to …
A Sort of Retrospective
Because I'm in the middle of writing 'Pitkirtly XXVIII' [still no title but I'm hoping one will spring out and ambush me when I least expect it] I am keen to find any excuse for procrastination, and this is why I found myself thinking about which books I've most enjoyed writing. This often becomes clear …
Announcing THE GREAT CALAMITY
I’m happy* to announce that my latest novel ‘The Great Calamity’ is now available in ebook format from the places listed below, and that a paperback version is working its way through the Amazon publishing labyrinth and should be available before too long. This book is a bit different from my others but during the …
June catch-up – what’s happened to summer?
First the good news - having seen someone questioning on Twitter whether self-published writers really only sell 250 books on average, which sparked a discussion about whether this meant 250 altogether or per published book, I decided to check my Amazon author reports page to see how many I had sold overall. I was slightly …
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The Search for a Title
Happy Easter! As we progress towards April, I bring the news that I've reached 49,100 words in the novel known until now as Pitkirtly XXVII. It has been harder than usual to think of a title for this one, partly because my initial idea for the storyline was based around roadworks, which turned out not …
February – more daylight and return to Pitkirtly
As we settle into what is in Edinburgh a cold, wet February, I've started writing something new. I hope regular readers will be pleased to hear it's the 27th of the Pitkirtly Mysteries and is provisionally called The Way to Dusty Death. (But I hope a different title emerges as I go along - I'm …
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Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 