Pine trees and willow My last post was about writing in the heat. This one is about editing a Christmas book in August. My next book, A Little Christmas Charm is due out sometime in October and already I’ve had the structural edits in. These are the ‘big’ edits. The ones where we sort out the story, and …
Writing in a heatwave. Okay, so we’ve established it’s hot. Here, in the South East, the temperature has regularly hovered around 30 degrees for what seems like forever. Now I’m normally reptilian when it comes to the sun; I like to bask, like a lizard, letting those warm rays seep through my skin. On a …
In my post last week, I mentioned what I’d learnt about the biscuit market while writing Oh Crumbs. It wasn’t only biscuits that I had to research for the book, though. The hero in Oh Crumbs, Doug Faulkner, is quietly spoken with an air of calm and control – on the outside. Inside he’s a much …
What did I learn while writing Oh Crumbs? One of the unexpected pleasures of writing a book is the research. In my other life as a medical writer, I’m used to trawling the internet for information on the diseases or medicines I’m working on, so research itself isn’t new for me. Research on biscuits though, …
A greedy second celebration Last week I celebrated paperback publication of Too Damn Nice. This week I celebrated the publication of my latest ebook, Oh Crumbs. As it’s set in the Crumbs biscuit company, there seemed to be no better way to mark the occasion than having a biscuit…or two. Followed, of course, by a …