Lessons Indie Authors Can Learn From Single-Estate Winemakers
I just bought a bottle of wine solely based on its label. According to old guard wine connoisseurs I’ve just committed a major faux pas.
Continue readingI just bought a bottle of wine solely based on its label. According to old guard wine connoisseurs I’ve just committed a major faux pas.
Continue readingHas Stornoway – most famous as the town displayed at the top of the BBC weather map (usually covered in clouds) and the capital of the islands of the Outer Hebrides just off the west coast of Scotland — suddenly become a focal point for the crime fiction genre? And either way, why the hell […]
Continue readingA classic writing device is to replay a high level concept, or narrative motif, in multiple ways throughout a novel. Such creative repetition can offer the humble novel richness and depth. It plays to theme. It can elevate a story to a higher plain. Authors strive for such thematic greatness. Not all achieve it.
Continue readingInvasion of Privacy is in a new rising sub-genre: cyber-crime thriller!
Continue readingThe September issue of Opening Line’s Literary ‘Zine has been launched today and the literary magazine’s feature interview is with yours truly supplemented with an extract from my upcoming novel. The focus of the four-page interview is very much on my writing aspirations, writing background, my inspiration for Invasion of Privacy and approach to writing it.
Continue readingI’m proud to announce that an excerpt from Invasion of Privacy has been published in the online magazine, Opening Line. It’s in their August 2013 issue which is themed around the subject of Villains.
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