Wit, charm, romance and murder…
Conference time It's been a very busy week. Last weekend I was the Crime Writers' Association conference in Brighton, which was a wonderfully friendly event with stimulating speakers. There were talks from experts in getting the details right in police procedurals and legal thrillers. A psychologist who's worked with serial killers and authors who write …
Crawley Festival of Words My latest Maybridge Murder Mystery is with my editor so until I have more news about that, I thought I'd let you know what else I've been up -- apart from the housework! This weekend was the Crawley Festival of Words crime weekend. I was thrilled to be able to hear …
Clearing the decks... I’ve just emerged, blinking into the light, rather like Mole in Wind in the Willows. ‘Up we go! Up we go! Till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight and he found himself rolling in the grass of a great meadow.’ Okay, I’m not rolling in a great meadow …
On the Couch with Liz Fielding... For those of you at work, or in a different time zone, I'm posting the link to my On the Couch interview with CR38IVES, that went live this morning on Linkedin. You can catch up with it here on YouTube.
....while the weather has kept me indoors on the sofa. The temperature has been bitingly cold - and there's been a bit of snow - so while I've been writing during the day, I've been catching up on my reading during the evening. First up is the latest in the Libby Sarjeant murder mystery series …
Taking a chance The year is nearly at an end and I couldn't let it pass without a little reflection on how different it has been for me. This was the year of the great change, from thirty years of writing romance to becoming a published crime writer. Murder Among the Roses was a book …
The great Leigh Michaels believes that we need a new book category - the accidental historical. Read all about it today on the Liberta Books blog.
Strand Magazine in the United States asked me to write a blog for them on English crime novels for a winter's night. Here's the link - https://strandmag.com/english-crime-stories-for-a-winter-night/
Where do you begin? I have noticed, when reading reviews of Murder Under the Mistletoe, that several people said that they wished they'd read Murder Among the Roses first. One reviewer mentioned that she'd stopped and bought the first book, before reading on. I can understand that. Even if I later pick up books out …
New blog post Just a very quick note to let you know that I've talked to a number of romance writers who have crossed over to the crime genre - not always exclusively. If you want to read what they have to say, click on this link to the Liberta Books site
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