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Photo by Darren Cool for Connors Brighton Last week I ran a three-hour MA class on plotting at City University. Apart from being one of the scariest things I have ever said yes to (and I admit this as a constant yes-person), planning the session coincided with a small sea-change in my working . . . → Read More  The Street in Tankerton Last week, Rosanna Ley tagged me in her blog for this, which is a sort of chain blog thing, where you answer questions about your next book and tag five other writers to take up from you. It’s a great idea, but I’m suffering from mathematics, because practically everyone I know . . . → Read More When I finished the very first draft of my first novel Cuckoo at the end of NaNoWriMo 2008, even I knew that I needed to do a lot of work to get it into a shape where I could show it to anyone else. After all, it had only taken me thirty days to produce. The . . . → Read More Jamie Harrison interviewing me at Crawley Wordfest. I might look a bit miffed, but that's my thinking face, honest. I have had an extremely busy week with my Every Vow You Break launch party on Tuesday and the Cuckoo One Town One Book event as the finale of Crawley Wordfest. ‘But surely,’ I hear . . . → Read More 
Here’s a lovely promo, made for my Italian publishers, Garzanti for the release of Finché vita non ci separi (Till death do us part), the Italian version of . . . → Read More  CUCKOO paperback – in a bookshop near you, at a nice price So, I didn’t keep up my resolution to post here three times a week during NaNovember. Man, it’s hard, writing 50,000 words in a month. Even when it’s the day job. Nearly there, though. Just 1500 to do tomorrow before midnight. Might just . . . → Read More Yesterday I lugged all 450 pages of the Every Vow You Break manuscript – with line-edits and my own final alterations – up to London to hand over to Leah, my editor at Headline. Tomorrow, I start on Bad Jean. Although character, place and story are pretty well formed in my head, I have not yet . . . → Read More  Keith and Sandy 'helping' me edit Every Vow You Break First, my excuses for not posting in over a month – ‘very bad for the blogging profile’ according to internet wisdom. Life: I’ve been busy packing Big’Uns off to University, preparing LittleSon for Secondary School and settling in my half-empty-nester consolation prize of two kittens named . . . → Read More Editor Leah got back with her notes for draft two of Every Vow You Break (formerly known as Novel #2). There were two of them: 1) it’s brilliant and 2) she loves it. The story, plot, character and setting notes from draft one are now all fixed! Hurrah! Before it goes to the copy editor, though, I’ve . . . → Read More |
Just click on the suitcase to hear the music that inspired and accompanied the writing of Cuckoo. (you'll need a free Spotify account)
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