Publication Date: 27th November 2014 from No Exit Press. Source: Real Readers. Yugoslavia, a German officer has been shot and killed. Along with him a young, beautiful filmmaker and photographer—a veritable hero to her people—has been brutally murdered. Assigned to the case is military intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. Already… Continue reading
Publication Date: October 2nd 2014 from Chatto and Windus. Source: Netgalley DC Simon Serrailler is faced with his worst crimes yet, and Lafferton is left reeling. I love the Simon Serrailler novels. Always have done from the moment I picked up “The Various Haunts of Men” all those years ago,… Continue reading
Why We Write – Mark Edwards When I was nine or ten years old, my mum left a copy of The Fog by James Herbert lying around. I think she even told me some of the things that happened in it. Intrigued, I picked it up and… Continue reading
Publication Date: Available Now from Quercus. Source: Publisher Review Copy Eve is putting her life together again. Her partner has walked out on her. She’s moved into a tiny flat on the outskirts of Dublin. She has no job. But she does have her beloved baby daughter – and there’s… Continue reading
Publication Date: Available Now Source: Publisher Review Copy. People are keeping secrets from Oli – about where his father is, and why he hasn’t come to join them at his uncle’s house in the country. But Oli has secrets too. He knows what lives in the attic. Eren… Continue reading
I am very pleased to welcome Eliza Crewe to the blog today – I have not yet had a chance to read her novels, but I am very much looking forward to them and her story is interesting – originally with a publisher until they closed their doors, she… Continue reading
So the blog has not been as active as usual and those of you who follow me on various social media outlets will know why, it has been an insane, stressful and uncertain time for me over the last couple of weeks. I will not go into it again… Continue reading
Enter the competition… Book Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3MYcX-ZOlM&list=UUC8gfusPVJPnlm70fV2fBZA Digital innovation in practice – the chucking structure of Hide and Seek My third novel for carina uk is being sold using the relatively new digital practice of ‘chunking’. That is, it will be sold in the three parts. The… Continue reading
Today I am very pleased to welcome back Joanna Courtney, telling us more about her writing journey… Rejection I am an expert at being rejected. I’m a top reject. As a short story writer I’ve long learned to accept that you’re lucky if you sell even half of… Continue reading
Publication Date: Available now from Picador Source: Purchased Copy Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy’s best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they’re seniors who… Continue reading
