All Change (or bye bye Scrivener?)
I’ve been a long time user of the excellent Scrivener. Bad Blood, Cut Dead, Tell Tale and Two Evils were written using Scriv. That’s something close...
Tag: writing
Progress (of sorts)
I started writing book five at the beginning of January. Considering I had a few distractions along the way I think I’ve done rather well. Right now I’m c...
Happy New Year
A belated happy New Year to everyone and apologies for the paucity of blog posts in 2014. It is something I intend to rectify in 2015 (if I can keep to my New Y...
Back To Savage
So for the past couple of months I’ve been working on a stand-alone book, but today I returned to the Major Crimes suite at Crownhill police station to re...
What’s Next?
Ah, if only I knew! Being a writer is not dissimilar to being a freelance programmer – you never know what is round the corner. Except when I was a progra...
Latest News
(it’s the sign of a lame post which is titled “Latest News” but there you go!) Bad Blood has been doing well since ebook publication day ...
My Writing Space
A couple of people have asked me about my work environment, my “shack” in other words (or cell if I’m feeling particularly pressured). I’...
Good News re Book No. Two
When I made my little announcement of a deal with HarperCollins/Avon a few weeks ago I had to bring the disappointing news that the second book would not be pub...
Third Draft: Hunting Those Adverbs
Oh yes, my favourite pastime: hunting down and slaughtering adverbs. My first and second draft are full of them and that won’t do. My mission, should I ch...
