mysteries | mysteries
Mar.25.2013
Jeffery Deaver and Peter James are lined up to take part in this year’s Crimefest and I'm delighted to be there with them.
Peter James and Pauline Rowson - we both look a bit sozzled! CrimeFest 2011
I haven't met Jeffrey Deaver but I am sure that his Thriller Writing Seminar as part of the...
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Feb.22.2013
“Abandoning” a series is a harsh word. It sounds like an author tucked the books into a heated drop at a foundling hospital, or a love affair petered out. Maybe sales fell into the abyss.
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Jan.08.2013
Having just reviewed a m/s from a talented young aspiring mystery writer, let me pass on the same (potentially deflating) advice: in all but two* (footnote below) "locked room" mysteries ever published, the writer has performed countless acrobatics to distract the reader from realizing that the...
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Jan.05.2013
The year in review, resolution-wise, really comes down to this. First, the resolutions: to increase the number of steps on my pedometer and hit 10K regularly; to read more books than in 2011 with two side challenges through bookcrossing.com of the SIY (set-it-yourself) and pages-read.
First,...
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Dec.20.2012
Although my holiday is over, I’m taking a brief ‘break’ today and rerunning a post from October of 2011, with a few updates. As I start a new book, even though it’s romantic suspense and not a ‘straight’ mystery, this is one of the questions I find...
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Nov.22.2012
Gizmag had another interesting article about a new vending machine. Craig Small has created a vending machine to sell used books. Put two dollars in and the machine will randomly dispense a used book.
Now, I like the idea of a vending machine that sells used books for two dollars. I don...
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Nov.06.2012
This is the report from the highly successful CSI Portsmouth 2012 event which I organise and at which I was appearing as a guest crime author. It was a tremendous day, very successful and enjoyable.
Crime authors Stephen Booth, Ann Cleeves, Matt Hilton and Pauline Rowson, and crime experts from...
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Oct.26.2012
I read mostly mysteries and suspense novels, because that is what I write and because I review books for Suspense Magazine. But occasionally I read something outside of those genres. I find that a different type of book and writing style can spark my own writing and stretch my creativity.
Last...
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Oct.07.2012
Last month at a dinner party the hostess’ husband stopped by to visit. When I told her this morning she was both surprised and pleased. He had come back a year and a half after his death to see how she, their children and grandchildren were doing. I told her what he told me....
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Sep.26.2012
What a fool I was in Bush Poodles are Murder to give sleuth Belle Palmer’s friend a breast cancer “scare.” Nothing serious. Not the real thing. A false positive mammogram that led to a perfectly fine ultrasound. The...
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