I’m not really a crime aficionado and read only the occasional detective story, but I met Chris Longmuir at the Love A Happy End event in June and I’ve been looking forward to her prize-winning Dead Wood ever since. Apart from anything else I’ve entered the Dundee Prize and was keen to see the kind of book that … Continue reading Dead Wood by Chris Longmuir
The past is not another country; it is a familiar that walks daily with us, by our side. The strap line is a great introduction to Shirley Wright’s debut novel, an emotionally powerful story with the touch of poetry that graces all of Shirley’s writing. I’m delighted that Shirley is joining me here today to … Continue reading Shirley Wright talks about ‘Time Out of Mind’
First draft, rough draft, dirty draft. You know where I’m coming from here. The thing is to write and write some more. It’s all new and in the words of the Director of Deliverance, ALL GOOD. Hugh Bonneville ‘All Good’ Or is it? When do you go with the flow of a scene that’s just … Continue reading There are no rules. But lots of decisions.
As cop shows go, Line of Duty (Tuesdays BBC2) strikes me as a cut above the average. No surprise when I realised the writer is Jed Mercurio, (remember the almost fly-on-wall style Bodies? – how could I forget!) Although in LoD there’s none of the jerky camera thing, the casting is really great, the characters … Continue reading Whose story is it anyway?
So let me get this straight, genre is a requirement of the agent or publisher rather than the reader? I certainly know of more than one author whose novel has been rejected on the grounds of not fitting a genre or not being in the genre of the moment, and so it’s good that indie … Continue reading Crossing genres, or what’s the story?
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