Ramblings of a Frustrated Crime Writer

Hopefully the person jumping out of your cake won't look as bored as these two! For a major scene in my book, How Kirsty Gets Her ...

There's nothing more exciting for an author to see the cover for their new book for the first time. It's like waiting for your ba...

Hopefully, the person jumping out of your cake  won't look as bored as these two! For a major scene in my book, How Kirsty Gets H...

  Tenancious wee guy - "Nobody is stopping me from getting that cheese." Of all the mantras that writers have, that...

I was first published when I was 15 and wrote a piece on superstitions for Jackie magazine. Over the years, though my writing, this is w...

There are so many things that can stand in the way of your writing time. Know what they are and beat 'em. The Internet Do you...

I currently know there's… A naked man tied to a bed with a ball in his mouth as a femme fatale with murder in her heart struts up and...

Call it writer's block, call it hitting a brick wall. Whatever you call it, it's every writer's nightmare when the words won...

I’m currently scribbling away trying to bring the word count of my novella How Kirsty Gets Her Kicks up by about 17,000 words. At first it ...

When I was writing How Kirsty Got Her Kicks, I wanted my main character to be gutsy; the kind of woman every women wants to be - who doesn...

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Just got an email saying that Pulp Press want to publish my first novel, a pulp fiction revenge book provisionally called How Kirsty Gets ...