by Derek | Apr 28, 2016 | Writing
So, I was the featured author on Charlie Cochrane’s blogs this week. The first time – apart from a Fahrenheit chat when Death of a DIva was released – that I’ve been interviewed. Typically, I agonised over the answers – do I want to...
by Derek | Apr 23, 2016 | Writing
I don’t wish death on any living thing, But find it hard to know that Bowie’s gone. That Prince no more will dance and play and sing, While Bashir Al Assad goes rolling on. Yet I’ll still play “Let’s Dance,” and “Kiss” Out LOUD Not read Mein Kampf from first page to...
by Derek | Feb 8, 2016 | Travel, Writing
This week’s been an interesting one for my writing. I write crime fiction, which I think is heavily reliant on plot, and as a result, before I start writing, I always have a plot (and several sub-plots) mapped out, from beginning to end. I write a detailed sketch of...
by Derek | Dec 19, 2015 | Memories, Music, Reading, Writing
Death of a Diva is available now. To buy it, click here. You can also send it as a personalised Gift E-Book here. I write in noise. My mother used to tell anyone who cared to listen that, as a child, I was incapable of enduring silence, and that – with the arrival of...
by Derek | Sep 23, 2015 | Writing
I’ve come, over the past week or so, to realise that the best murder mysteries are, ultimately, about serial killers. Not, necessarily, the Gory Hannibal Lecter type of serial killers; even the classic Agatha Christies, for example, seem to work even better when the...
by Derek | Sep 10, 2015 | Writing
Writing fiction is not always hard. It’s not always easy, either. Oh, I know some people would love us all to believe the image of the tortured artist agonising for years over the right word – something between Proust and Joyce – whilst others would see all...
