Tag: Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Strangeness on a Train
I’m writing this the night before I appear on the Radio 4 Today Programme to talk about my writer-in-residence-on-a-train gig. I’m scheduling the post to publish just after I have finished. You will know, dear reader, if I have made a tit of myself, talked garbage, or forgotten what I was saying mid-spout. I have that yet to discover.
Strangeness on a Train is the short story that resulted from my East Coast London-Harrogate-London writer-in-residence tenure.… read more
Writer on a Train
This article first appeared on Behind the Headlines on May 16, 2012.
As a full time writer working from the home I share with three men, I can find plenty to distract me from my daily 2000 words. Before you get excited about this in a 50 Shades sort of way, the three men I live with are one husband and two sons (the daughter is largely away at Uni), and the distractions are of the domestic kind – exciting things like washing crispy sheets, scraping crud off floors and searching for all the forks which have mysteriously disappeared.… read more
Guest blog post
I wrote this post for the excellent and wonderful Harrogate Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival You’re Booked blog. It’s about my writing process. The one I’m embroiled in right now. Do take a look.
What I Did Before My Holidays
From 19 – 22 July, I was at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, appearing on the New Blood Panel. It was a great honour to be chosen (by Val McDermid, no less!) to speak alongside SJ Watson (whose book Before I go to Sleep is deservedly taking the world by storm), Gordon Ferris (of the gritty Truth Dare Kill) and Melanie McGrath, (of the marvellous White Heat).
(Ahhhh. A gorge on brackets, normally as forbidden as carbs on the Dukan Diet)
WHAT A WEEKEND!… read more