This week, I hopped over to CRIMINALLY GOOD, a fabulous crime fiction resource curated by Lucy V. Hay – author, script editor and producer. I’ve been a huge fan of Lucy’s work for a while now, so it was an […]
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How to Survive Your First Radio Interview (or podcast!)
I recently wrote an article for the Alliance of Independent Authors’ blog about what you can do to prepare, participate, and… erm… can’t think of another “p” word… survive your first radio interview or podcast. I don’t think it matters […]
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A new Dan Taylor book, and reasons to be grateful
It doesn’t seem like only six months ago I published the third in the Dan Taylor series, Three Lives Down, wondering how readers would react to that new book. The series had been on a hiatus for a while so […]
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Podcasting about writing – and Australia’s deadly fauna!
When one of my eBook distributors, StreetLib, contacted me last month and asked if I’d like to be interviewed on an Italian radio show and podcast about what it was like to work as a self-published author, I jumped at the […]
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Author Rowena Holloway on shirt-fronting* her demons
This week, fellow Aussie Rowena Holloway joins me on the blog to have a chat about what life has in store for her writing-wise this year, as well as how she’s developed her writing style as an author. Rowena is […]
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Author interview with Angela Marsons
Today, I’m excited to introduce an author I’ve only discovered in the past year when I bought the first in the DI Kim Stone novels, Silent Scream, and then devoured the rest of the series in quick succession – completely detrimental […]
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Yes, I’ve been guilty of not posting anything here for over a month now, and I blame Dan Taylor! At the beginning of March, I set out to write and publish the short story, The Legacy Device – a prequel to the […]
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Welcoming 2016 CWA Diamond Dagger Recipient, Peter James
It gives me great pleasure to welcome one of my favourite crime authors, Peter James, to the blog today. Peter James’s nine consecutive Sunday Times No 1 bestselling Roy Grace crime novels are published in 36 languages, with sales of […]
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Crime fiction by the seat of yer kilt
It’s a pleasure to welcome crime fiction author Seumas Gallacher to the blog today, all the way from Glasgow via the Middle East. Seumas and I have known each other via this writing malarkey for quite some time now, so […]
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Exploring underwater archaeology with Rachel Grant
A huge welcome today to the first of my crime/thriller author guests on the blog: archaeologist and bestselling romantic suspense author, Rachel Grant. Rachel’s latest book, Cold Evidence, was released last week, garnering some fantastic reviews, and I felt it […]
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