I’ve just started reading Shooting Your Boyfriend by Cammy May Hunnicutt. Just two pages in and I’m laughing. It is all so true!
Festive Support
My friend, Jeff, (you can find him at FourFoxesOneHound) has set the benchmark for support to his colleagues and I want to do the same for mine: All this month and through the Festive season, I will be featuring your books on my blog. All you have to do is leave a comment on either […]
A Writers’ Super Group
I’ve added a new link to my Blogs I Read list: New Kid on the Writer’s Block. See what you think. Writing is a solitary occupation but groups like this, Four Foxes One Hound and Avalon Authors help us all to keep in contact to assist and encourage one another as well as talk with readers. […]
Interview with Ilsa Mayr: The Widow
Ilsa Mayr, Avalon Romance and Mystery writer, talks with me about her latest release, The Widow. Ilsa takes an age old story and brings it to the brink of contemporary conflict.
Summer Reading
Is there any activity more iconic to the warm weather than picking up a book and losing yourself in another world? Probably, but I’ve had the extraordinary pleasure of actually 1) finding the time and 2) discovering books that warranted the commitment of precious hours. On a day when the sun hasn’t found any break […]
My First Post for Avalon Authors
Today is my first opportunity to write for the Avalon Authors Blog. This will be a monthly contribution until the publication of my first novel for Avalon Books, Wait a Lonely Lifetime.
Compost
The natural world has a way of dealing with trash. Gardeners call it composting. Green warriors call it recycling. Publishers call it pulping. Writers call it so many different things, I can only list the a few of those I’ve heard recently: material, research, edited cuts, bits. What’s your way of dealing with the parts […]
Guest Blogging: 28 April 2011
I’ll be a guest at Four Foxes One Hound this coming Thursday, writing about how Wait a Lonely Lifetime developed from an idea to a soon-to-be-published novel. http://fourfoxesonehound.wordpress.com
Current Reads – April
The Long Good-Bye – Raymond Chandler. This is my introduction to Chandler’s novels and I’m hooked. I love it that I knew who the killer was before Philip Marlowe revealed the truth and why Terry Lennox did the noble thing. I’ve never been a fan of crime fiction, not since I read a P D […]
Reflected Glory? Not!
A New York-based publisher (nameless for now) has offered me a contract for my novel, Wait a Lonely Lifetime. This news is now 48 hours old. Where have I been? What have I been doing? How am I taking this so much in my stride? This is a life-long dream come true and it feels […]