To pre-order or not to pre-order…?
Now I’m republishing my books I find I’m trying to get into the minds of my new readers to work out what will receive the best response...
Where is Thorpe?
Photo credit: Conisbrough Castle Keep by Mike Smith A few years ago, I got into an online discussion with a reader about where I set the...
Too much information?
It’s been a month since I pressed ‘Publish’ on my first self-published novel and it’s been a month of highs and lows. When I was...
The Miners' Strike
Photo credit: Alan Murray-Rust / The last of Denaby Main This month marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1984-85 miners’...
A New Chapter
It’s been a few years since I posted anything on social media about my books and even longer since I wrote a blog post. I’ve been through...
What next?
I’m trying something different. It’s not a New Year’s resolution or anything like that; it’s something I’ve been working on it for a few...
When inspiration strikes...
People often ask me where I get my ideas from and whether what I write is based on my own experience. When I did my first creative...
And then there were three...
Kate Fletcher 3 – Bad Seed – was published on February 25th which just happens to be my birthday. It was a strange day because I had two...
Even further out of my comfort zone...
I’ve written before about how much I appreciate Carlisle’s book festival, Borderlines. I’ve had the opportunity to hear some of my...
Let it go...
William Blake wrote in Proverbs of Hell ‘You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough’. Writing the ending to...
