June Update

June Update

Hey there, and Happy June to you. It’s been a while since I checked in, but I wouldn’t want you to think I’ve been sitting around doing nothing. Au contraire my lovely friends. I’ve been writing and plotting and, well, the fruits of all that labour are about to...
Happy Birthday You Sexy Devil

Happy Birthday You Sexy Devil

Three years ago today Death of a Devil was published. It was the third of my Danny Bird mysteries, and one of the hardest things I’d written up to that date. When Fahrenheit signed my first novel Death of a Diva they’d asked for – and been assured by me that I had in...
Dead Girl Blues: Living With the Monster.

Dead Girl Blues: Living With the Monster.

Back when I was an aspiring writer, one thing would always puzzle me, and that thing was the oft-repeated phrase “Find your own voice.”“Understand character,” I got, as I did “Know the difference between story and plot,” but the own voice thing – especially because it...