NaNoWriMo This is my third go at November’s National Novel Writing Month challenge—writing 50,000 words, or a short novel, in just thirty days. Fortunately, I’m blessed to be able to write fast, but this year threw in the added challenge of a holiday midway through—it’s not so easy to write underwater! But I did fit […]
The other day, I was reading my reviews on Amazon (I know, I know—I should avoid them, but they’re just there), and one stood out that got me thinking: I did enjoy the book, but there was far too much use of the f word. This word was overdone and for me, it popped up […]
Recently, awesome crime writer Rebecca Bradley invited me to write a guest post for her blog on how I turn all the oddities in my head into a first draft. If you’d like to find out, why not take a look? Rebecca Bradley – Murder Down To A Tea
My eighth book, and the first one I published, came about almost by accident. I’d always fancied writing a book about scuba diving, but never quite had enough of a plot to justify it. Then in October, chance took me horse riding in the mountains of Egypt’s South Sinai. It turned out my two companions […]