Hello, and thank you for visiting my site. I hope that you'll return often and always find something of interest about my world and what inspires me to pick up a pen. (This is a figure of speech, unfortunately. My handwriting is terrible!) Here's what I've been up to recently...
Judging a book by its cover!
Following discussions with several fellow writers and readers, I decided to give the omnibus edition of my short stories a new cover. (For comparison purposes, you can see the previous one by scrolling down to the photo of me selling my books last Sunday.)
The front is from my best selling collection, a mixture of grim and not quite so grim tales. They include Too Much Blood on the Axminster, which was awarded first place by the late M C Beaton (Hamish Macbeth, Agatha Raisin) in a competition connected with the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. My prize was a whole weekend pass to the event at the Old Swan in Harrogate, where I met some of my idols in the crime writing world.
The back features my two other collections, which are very different in nature. Had We But World Enough spans very different themes, from sex trafficking and illegal immigration to an aspiring novelist fulfilling her dream of settling in Key West and a young English couple experiencing their first Christmas in Australia.
The ‘twist in the tale’ stories in Swings & Roundabouts cover the widest range of topics, including a new slant on the Loch Ness Monster myth, an Asian shopkeeper’s cat foiling a racist attack and the unvarnished opinion of Johannes Vermeer’s wife and daughter about the setups for his paintings.
16 May, 2025 - Make the first comment on this story
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