Exit Stage Left.
A writer’s journey Part 3 – another dream bites the dust) You know the score. You start to get the hang of something, maybe excel here and there, and suddenly you’re invincible. Your confidence soars.…
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No Alternative (Or why I wrote No Accident)
I didn’t need to write No Accident. I’d already written No Bodies, a perfectly good story to launch the Kent Fisher murder mystery series. A UK agent had read it from cover to cover, keen…
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Love is up in the air
(With apologies to John Paul Young for corrupting his song.) In my Valentine’s Day email to my Readers Group, I gave them a look under the bonnet of Kent Fisher’s turbulent love life. From the…
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The importance of being dishonest
A Writer’s Journey Part 2 – How to survive when you don’t fit in. In Part 1 of my writing journey I talked about the role books played in my childhood, how they inspired me,…
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My Favourite Five Fictional Sleuths
I’m often asked about my favourite fictional detectives and sleuths. It comes with the territory when you write murder mystery novels. Readers want to know which writers and detectives you like and why, whether they…
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Who Do You Think You Are?
A Writer’s Journey Part 1 Becoming a celebrity could help me solve a couple of problems. If I was a household name, it would be easier to get a book deal and sell thousands of…
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The blog that led to murder
Would you believe a blog could lead to murder? Me neither. Not that anyone was killed, of course. Not in real life anyway. It started when I gave up smoking. It took minutes to discover…
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More than a Murder Mystery
Isn’t it lovely when readers surprise you? Here I am, writing murder mysteries for crime fiction lovers, doing my best to create the most baffling and convoluted plots possible. Being a huge fan and admirer…
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A hero for today’s murder mysteries
Have you ever read a book or watched a TV programme and wished you could write something as good? Neither had I until I saw the original Inspector Morse series. The superb characterisation, complex and…
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No Sex Please We’re Crime Writers
Have you ever wondered why there’s so little sex in crime fiction? Maybe there is and I’m reading the wrong books. Maybe sex and murder are not good bedfellows. Some categories of crime fiction, such…