As you may know, I run a consulting service where you can send me policing questions or a manuscript to read through and one of the most common misconceptions I see popping up is the one between pathologist and coroner. It is as though the two titles are interchangeable or completely mistaken. That the coroner…
What’s Your Revision Process Like? – Ian Patrick
Today I’m thrilled to welcome crime author Ian Patrick to the blog to talk about his revision process. Educated in Nottingham, Ian left school at sixteen. After three years in the Civil Service he moved to London for a career in the Metropolitan Police. He spent twenty-seven years as a police officer, the majority as…
What Impact Do Book Reviews Have on Sales?
Back in June, I wrote a blog post on whether social media could sell books, and the outcome of the polls on Twitter and Facebook was that people were buying books based on what they saw on social media. Yes, there is a larger market of book-buying people out there, but social media users are…
Writing Crime – The Identification of a Body
Hello and welcome back to the Writing Crime series. It’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts. A couple of reasons, one was that I went on holiday and then I’ve not been too well. I might update you on my health in another post. But when I’m ill my writing is…
A Video Course For Writers
As a writer, I know many other writers and we are always looking to improve our craft. We read multiple books on the subject and take courses that are available to us. We never feel we are doing our best work and think we always have more to give. We can do better, we can…
Recently Read – Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi
Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi Has your smartphone become your BFF? Do you feel bored when you’re not checking Facebook or Instagram? Bored and Brilliant: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Spacing Out explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, and explores how we can harness boredom’s hidden benefits to become our most productive selves. In…
The Twisted Web – Sneak Peek!
I’m thrilled to announce that The Twisted Web is released into the wild today. Yes, you can pick up a copy for your Kindle right now. There will be a paperback and audiobook to follow, but today you can get the ebook. The Twisted Web A social media shaming. A killer with a message. A…
The Twisted Web – Reveal!
Welcome back to the blog. I hope you’ve had a good summer. I’ve been incredibly busy working on two books. And I’m back with a bang today as I reveal the cover and blurb to one of those books which will be released this coming Monday, 17th September! The Twisted Web is the fourth book…
Two Week Blog Break
This is just a quick post to say that the blog is on a two-week break. I didn’t want to disappear and not tell you where I was. I shall return in a couple of weeks and I have some great posts lined up. Don’t go far! Enjoy your summer x
What’s Your Revision Process Like? – Catherine Ryan Howard
I am thrilled to welcome Catherine to the blog today to talk about her revisions process. Catherine is from Cork, Ireland and now lives in Dublin. Her debut novel, DISTRESS SIGNALS, was an Irish Times and USA Today bestseller and was shortlisted for both the IBA Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA John…