Books and Writing

I write and I read, mostly crime fiction these days. I teach writing, and I work as a freelance editor and manuscript critiquer. If I review books, it's from the perspective of a writer.

Saturday, June 28, 2025

CrimeFest 2025 - Bristol UK

Lee Child, Fiona Veitch Smith, Linda Mather, Sherryl Clark (c) Sherryl Clark 2025 When I knew I was going to Europe, which initially was t...

Sunday, January 14, 2024

How To Be a Successful Writer – Advice From 30 Years of Writing and Publishing

I have never met a novelist, either in person or online, who doesn’t want to get their novel/s published. They might not come right out ...

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Trust your gut: how a Debut Dagger longlisting led to a publishing deal

People often ask me where the initial idea for “Trust Me, I’m Dead” came from, and I talk about an article I read many years ago where on...

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

The basics of book contracts, part 3 - the promises made and what they mean

So you have a book contract. Wonderful! And you’ve looked at the key elements I’ve talked about so far — licencing, termination clause, ad...

Continuing the basics of books contracts - "show me the money"

This second article on book contracts is going to deal with the money, or in other words, what you are likely to get paid when you have bo...

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