Dear All, If you’re UK-based, I hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather and wherever you are in the world, I hope that you receive this update. The downside of not having my own IT helpdesk is that I have to learn/apply/fix all the various bugs myself, and it appears that quite a lot ofContinueContinue reading “MAY!”
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Crime, Women and Comedy: an insight into writing humorous female-led fiction
Kiss, Marry, Murder is set in the leafy environs of Barnes in south-west London. I call it ‘urban cosy crime’, because while it borrows some of the tropes of a traditional murder mystery, it also flouts the rules occasionally with – gasp! – sexual exploits, bad language and not a pensioner-aged sleuth or village vicarContinueContinue reading “Crime, Women and Comedy: an insight into writing humorous female-led fiction”
It’s been a moment…
Well. It all went very quiet for a while there. It’s fair to say my writing life the past few years has been… tense. Erratic. Painful. Non-existent, on occasions. So it’s difficult, to know where to start with the story. At the beginning, I suppose! When I won the Comedy Women in Print award inContinueContinue reading “It’s been a moment…”
APRIL: FOOL
FOOL to think the winter was over! Sitting here today, I’ve seen sunshine, rain, hail, thunder and lightening while I work – talk about four seasons in a day, I think it was four seasons in an hour! There’s not been much going on this month. I’m waiting for final edits from my agent toContinueContinue reading “APRIL: FOOL”
How it started… how it’s going…
Someone asked me last week, what it was like to be a debut author. It’s weird, because to be honest, I don’t feel very debut-like anymore, although as far as the glacial timelines of the publishing industry go, it’s entirely possible I could be considered ‘new’ for another 23 years. But the initial excitement andContinueContinue reading “How it started… how it’s going…”
Mad (wo)men
With just under two months left to go until publication day, I thought I’d reflect on the journey so far. It hardly seems real, still, that my book will be in the actual shops in eight weeks’ time. The creative process has been relatively smooth sailing, if I’m honest. The hard stuff is all theContinueContinue reading “Mad (wo)men”
That difficult second album
It’s been a funny six months since I got my literary agent. Time seems to have slowed down, or is passing in larger chunks, I’m not sure which. I no longer speak about the process of writing in weeks, but in months, or years even. At a micro-level, things are happening. My first novel hasContinueContinue reading “That difficult second album”
What I learned about pitching at the London Book Fair
Being ready can take a long time I started writing The PTA Assassin two and a half years ago. When it was done, I followed up with the first edit. Then a second one. Then a massive third edit took place last year when I paid someone professional to look at it. Since then it’sContinueContinue reading “What I learned about pitching at the London Book Fair”