New Release – A Summer of Castles

It's a scorching summer in the UK and records are being broken. It isn't the first hot summer and it won't be the last. In 2003, it was warm, although not to the same degree as this July. The reason for the year? Well, for one thing I needed dry…

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Interviewing the author

It's day two of my blog tour, and I have a couple of places to visit, so please follow me. Splashes into Books invited me along for an interview. Faced with questions, it can be a little daunting - what to reveal about myself and my books? However, I actually…

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Beyond the Yew Tree is live and on tour!

My latest book is out on release and its gone on tour. You can read reviews and a guest post today, so please pop along to the blogs below and meet the fantastic book bloggers and reviewers who help support authors. Beyond the Yew Tree is out on Amazon on…

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Uplift yourself

There's no such genre as uplift, just as there isn't one called griplit, which is applied to thrillers, it's just marketing jargon used to encourage readers to jump on your book. However, it's at the back of my mind when I write that my books progress to an endpoint that…

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Places that inspire writers

We’ve all seen public buildings in our towns and cities: hospitals, schools, churches and swimming pools. Old and new in style, they perform a function and have a familiar interior. Some of these buildings, though, we perhaps only recognise on the outside. I’ve passed courthouses, the magistrates and the crown…

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Beyond the Yew Tree – available on pre-order

Publication day is one month off, but if you can't wait, then you can pre-order the Kindle edition now.  Paperback will be available, too. So, head on over to Amazon, and order or add to you wishlist. Still not sure?  You can read the opening pages here. Beyond the Yew…

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Cover reveal – guess the location

My third book is, like my first two, set in the east of England, but I've shifted a little north, out of East Anglia, but where? The cover is the clue. A Medieval city on a steep hill. With a castle... And a cathedral... If you don't recognise it, then…

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Blog Tour Day 7 – a conversation

It's the final day of the book tour week, and this week has certainly whizzed by. So my final three bloggers, last by no means least, include another extract from The Last Thing She Said. Mixing Reality with Fiction - Review The Divine Write - Review Ali- The Dragon Slayer -…

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Blog Tour Day 6 – Love and Romance

The penultimate day of my book tour! There's still much I want to tell you about the book, but I don't want to ruin the plot. My guest post goes a little way to anwer some of those questions about the story, but not too much I hope. Mai's Musings…

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Blog Tour Day 5 – Read an extract

Do you need to read a passage to help you make up your mind? I know when I'm looking at books on Amazon I wish I could see inside, and not just the opening chapters. When I'm in a bookshop, I thumb through a paperback and pick a few pages…

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