Cecilia Peartree – woman of mystery
setting the scene in Pitkirtly
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 …
I had a slight panic attack earlier this morning when I realised that my favourite notebook - the one in which I unexpectedly wrote 'Mysterious Pitkirtly' - had mysteriously disappeared, probably during The Great De-Cluttering of spring 2016. Last week I had to carry out an excavation to find the little case on wheels without which …
I couldn't find any pictures that expressed what I wanted to say on the cover of 'Pitkirtly XI' so I have had to carry out a special photo-shoot. Regular readers will not be surprised to learn that this didn't involve glamorous partly-dressed models, mocked-up dinosaur landscapes or both. Instead I had to make the supreme …
Although my latest novel is rather frivolous compared to the real world setting it attempts to depict, I thought some of my readers might be interested to know where I looked for information about the background. I usually go online first these days to see if I can find any sources that seem both relevant …
This is quite unusual and I've surprised even myself. The day after publishing 'Closer to Death in a Garden' - which has bizarrely spent some time vying with 'Tree and Shrub Expert' and Ian Rankin's 'The Hanging Garden' for top of the 'Gardens in Britain' chart on Amazon - I got out a new notebook …
Somehow the closer I get to finishing something, the more ways I find to procrastinate. You'd almost think I didn't want to finish. It isn't so much that - I love the feeling of having finished something. It's all the work that's needed to get to the end I object to! Laziness is a positive …
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Now that I've reached the end of the first draft of 'Pitkirtly X' I think it's time to reveal the actual title, which I must confess I have had in mind since before I started writing it. I've thrown together a cover to go with it, and now all that remains is for me to …
Today I made a start on what I hope are the final edits for 'Death in a Cold Spring'. This is the stage at which I will be really cross if I find a huge plot hole! But of course there is still time to fix it as I have no actual schedule for publication …
I'm now happy to report to those who are waiting for 'Pitkirtly IX' (no definite title yet) that I've now got about 25,000 words of it written, and the story is well under way. As usual it isn't going exactly as I thought it would, but I like to think that's how I deliver the …
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The WordPress elves, monkeys or whatever they are, have produced some rather generic reviews of the year for all my blogs, which are more of interest to me than to anyone else, although I've posted one on another blog just to see what it looks like. This blog post is more specifically a review of my …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 