This week, in the face of a good deal of interference from one of my cats, who decided to see something scary in the garden which inspired him to use my keyboard as a stepping-stone to the conservatory window-sill, and some time fruitlessly spent trying to evict Copilot from my Word setup, I published Pitkirtly …
Plot-wrangling
After leaving 'The Heir to Nothing' unfinished for a month while I got on with other stuff ranging from short stories and Christmas letters to trying to get the sills on the Panda welded, an unexpectedly lengthy process, the Christmas break has at last meant I've had time to read through the story so far …
Thoughts from the Conservatory
I'm still not entirely convinced it was a good idea to try and write the third novel in this particular series for National Novel Writing Month this year. For a start, the series was only supposed to have two books in it, but I left so many loose ends after the second one, which is …
What next?
As I come out of the post-publication slump which often happens, I've decided to set aside September for planning, thinking and possibly researching - that depends on how the planning and thinking goes. Although I am always happy to plunge into a bit of research, especially if it ends up taking me somewhere nice. When …
Mission Accomplished
At times it seemed like a Mission Impossible, although without the chase sequences involving various kinds of transport, and definitely without the disguises, especially the masks, but I've managed to complete and publish both the novels I've been working on in recent months, and still leave a whole week free for plotting the next one …
National Novel Writing Month comes round again with annoying predictability…
The first of November only means one thing to me - apart from the fact that I need to arrange for my car to have its MOT test in the next couple of weeks, that is. It's National Novel Writing Month! Last year at this time I was facing the month ahead with some trepidation …
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A Christmas Treat
A Merry Christmas to all my readers, and please welcome my guest, Matthew Drzymala I think if you read on you’ll see why it’s particularly appropriate to post my interview with him today, Christmas Eve. Our writing has something in common, which is that we write stories set in places that haven’t quite got themselves into …
Approaching November
We are now on the approach to NaNoWriMo again - how did it come round so quickly? I suppose taking part in the summer camp version in June is what has made the time flash past! The November one is definitely still the main event, with tens of thousands of participants and lots more activity …
Next steps
I've been very pleased so far with the reception given to 'Death at the Happiness Club' so far, and this has encouraged me to adapt my annual writing plan (a very flexible thing at the best of times) so that I can write another Pitkirtly novel in July instead of waiting until November. Of course …
To find out more…
I was recently interviewed as part of an 'author interrogations' series - I thought the questions were very interesting and I hope you'll find the answers tell you a little bit more about the mysterious Cecilia Peartree! http://joobook.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Cecilia%20Peartree
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 