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Feb.13.2012 Cracking on with the next DI Andy Horton, says Pauline Rowson, number nine in the series Having just finished writing the eighth in the DI Horton series, which is now with my editor, there was no time to rest on my laurels but it was straight on with researching the next DI Horton. I finished DI Horton number eight (I’ll reveal the title soon) on 31 January and since then I’ve been...	Aug.08.2011 Face time I had some bank problems recently. I have a "writing name" as T. calls it and, after months and months of depositing writing-gig-related checks under that name, my bank decided they they weren't sure who I was exactly, and they sent my checks back. In order to sort the mess out, I had to...
Dec.30.2009 The Girl with a Secret A little girl there was who knew a big secret. A secret made of gold and glint that she kept in the depths of her heart. It made her smile with a flush when no one was looking and her eyes sparkled with the pleasure it gave her. Her waist was thin. Her feet small. She wasn't particulary breath-...	Aug.10.2009 Wrestling with plot lines I’ve been wrestling with the plot of my next Inspector Horton Marine Mystery crime novel over the last few days – hence the silence on my blog, and the silence around the house. I get so absorbed in it, that I find it hard to think of anything else. I’m just over two thirds of the way through...
Nov.03.2008 Creating a Story - Day Two I'm off to breakfast, but wanted to quickly catch you up on the second day of creating a story. Here's what I did: I changed my mind about a couple of the Points of View, settling for now on four women, three of them thirty-nine/forty and one eighteen. I finished the character sketches. I named...