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...
The next chapter...
When I started writing Closer to Home it wasn’t really intended to be the first in a series. It was simply a way of telling a story that...
No such thing as bad publicity...
‘Closer to Home’, my last novel, is set in a mining town in South Yorkshire very much like the one in which I grew up. In fact, much of...
Living with another writer...
Just over a year ago I was interviewed by somebody from my local newspaper about my writing and my latest book. During the course of the...
What do I do for a living?
On holiday in Italy, sharing a table with strangers, the conversation inevitably turned to what we all do for a living. Two of my dinner...
‘Just write – the title will come later.’
One of the things that I find most difficult when starting a new writing project is deciding on a title. When I was at school, teachers...
