Harrogate HistoryFest - early report

The Old Swan

A first-time event here at the Old Swan, treading a little in the footsteps of Theakston’s Crime Fest, the new history festival is going very well.

Friday evening, Rose Tremain gave the first, fascinating, talk about her new book, Merival, characterisation, writing from the inside out and how much she […]

PERFIDITAS very relaxed blog tour

To celebrate its publication, PERFIDITAS is off on a virtual, fairly relaxed tour…

Click here for all the tour stop details, regularly updated.

And, of course, there’ll be the UK launch at Waterstones Tunbridge Wells on 6 November – all welcome.

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Missed INCEPTIO? You can buy it […]

Women writing books

Today starts a very special month when I’m featured in the online literary magazine Women Writers, Women’s Books. And I’m very excited to be in the company of Isabel Allende, Nicola Morgan, Roz Morris, Joanne Harris, Claire King and Judith Kinghorn, to mention a few.

It started with a tweet. […]

Making a book trailer - Part Deux

http://youtu.be/lUPhyUE0JvE

If you want a steep learning curve, try making a book trailer. If you like a story of persistence and life hours spent you can read how I did it (eventually) for INCEPTIO, the first Roma Nova thriller in February.

But as a keen movie fan and a glutton […]

PERFIDITAS extract

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‘Captain Carina Mitela?’

‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Who is this?’

‘Custodes XI Station. An emergency token with your code has been handed in. We’re holding the presenter.’

Juno.

I dropped everything and headed for the tunnel connecting our headquarters to the police station. The duty sergeant, with a typical cop’s bland expression but […]