Writing is going along steadily, but slowly. I’ve written a 5,000 word short story as a prequel to Double Identity which will become exclusive to newsletter subscribers. The draft of my next full-length thriller stands at just over 40,000 words, so about halfway. But in the lockdown I’ve been reading like a demon. That’s […]
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March 7th, 2021 | Tags: Books, historical fiction, lockdown reading, reading, reading books, spy stories, thriller | Category: Authors, Books, Readers | Leave a comment This is not a beauty contest or a selection. The list below contains just books I’ve read this year because I wanted to. Some made me catch my breath, others made me weep with joy or sorrow and others appalled me. But they all enthralled me. I’m not mentioning those I read or part-read […] December 31st, 2020 | Tags: Books, books read, fiction, non-fiction, reading books, reading genres | Category: Authors, Books, Readers | 3 comments Today’s guest is Cryssa Bazos, one of my fellow authors of Betrayal: Historical Stories. Cryssa is an award-winning historical fiction author and a seventeenth century enthusiast. Her debut novel,Traitor’s Knot, is the Medalist winner of the 2017 New Apple Award for Historical Fiction and a finalist for the 2018 EPIC eBook Awards for Historical Romance. […] November 26th, 2020 | Tags: alternative history, anthologies, book launch, Books, historical fiction, historical short stories | Category: Authors, Books, Genres, Guests, Readers, Short stories | Leave a comment That’s an easy one – the readers! No, really! I wrote The Girl from the Market after a suggestion in the Roma Nova Enthusiasts’ Group. Legend had it (in the earlier Roma Nova novels) that in AD 370 Julia Bacausa was a tough and fiery woman and Apulius a strong Roman of the traditional […] August 21st, 2020 | Tags: alternative history, Characters, historical fiction, Romans, Rome | Category: Books, Characters, New book, Readers, Roma Nova, Short stories, Writing challenge | Leave a comment Some authors don’t like second-hand book stalls, whether run as a businesses or for a charity fête. In fact, they hate them. The author gets no royalty nor secondary right nor anything. The books are toted around, exchanged or traded like a lump of former tree for a pound/euro/dollar or two – virtually free. I […] December 27th, 2019 | Tags: book stalls, Readers, reading, second-hand books | Category: Authors, Books, Insights, Readers, Writing life | 2 comments |
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