Why We Write- Drop in feature – Guest Post from Jan McDonald

I’m pleased to welcome Jan McDonald to the blog today telling us why she writes.   WHY DO WE WRITE?   I have often asked myself this question, usually in the middle of the night when I’m sitting at the keyboard yawning, and I guess there’s no straightforward answer. I… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….Empire by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard.

Publication Date: Available now from Headline Source: Publisher review copy Syl Hellias: an Illyri, the first of her kind to be born on Earth. Paul Kerr: a human, dedicated to his people’s resistance of the alien invasion. Brought together by chance they formed the strongest of bonds. Now they are… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….No Other Darkness by Sarah Hilary

Cover to follow Publication Date: April 2015 from Headline. Source: Publisher Review Copy Two young boys.Trapped underground in a bunker.Unable to understand why they are there.Desperate for someone to find them.Slowly realising that no-one will… Five years later, the boys’ bodies are found and the most difficult case of DI… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves…The Boy in the Shadows by Carl-Johan Vallgren

Publication Date: 29th January 2015 from Quercus Source: Publisher Review Copy In an overcrowded Stockholm underground station a father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his pushchair and his seven-year-old brother, Kristoffer, refuses to take the lift. A woman approaches and… Continue reading

“Why We Write” Drop in Feature – Guest Post from Jeffrey Perren.

    This Writer’s Life by Jeffrey Perren   Up before dawn — tea for me, coffee for the wife, pet the dog. Check emails, correspondence with beta readers, and miscellaneous.   So far, that doesn’t sound very exciting. But that’s the business side of things. I leave as much… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….Alice and the Fly by James Rice.

Publication Date: 15th January 2015 from Hodder and Stoughton. Source: Goodreads Giveaway Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition’s caused by some traumatic incident from my past I keep deep-rooted in my mind. As soon as I come clean I’ll flood out all these tears and it’ll… Continue reading