setting the scene in Pitkirtly
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 …
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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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 …
Thanks to everyone who has so far downloaded a copy of 'Death in a Cold Spring' - I am pleased to say it has two very nice five star reviews already. Unfortunately our real spring here is still a bit on the cold side, and the cats and I were sitting in the conservatory on …
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 …
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'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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This is my contribution to the Work in Progress Blog Tour. You can follow the links to and from my post to find out about what various writers are doing at the moment. Thanks to David Wailing, author of the ‘Auto’series – an often very scary glimpse of what we might be in for if …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 