All change on Facebook :-(

Facebook/Meta has decided to limit organic links in posts or in comments on Pages to two per month. So, if I post on my Facebook AlisonMortonAuthor Page with a link to a new blogpost on either my main blog or here, or if I link to an article from an outside source, I can […]

Criminally conferencing in Oxford

St Hilda's CFW composite image

No, not Inspector Morse, but the St Hilda’s Crime Fiction Writing Weekend with the theme of Bad Apples – Crime fiction’s enemies and anti-heroes.

In all my sixteen plus years of writing thrillers, this was my first time at this high quality and fun weekend. It’s been going for 33 years!

The original Victorian […]

What's my writing process?

(Photo: Uschi Hering)

*Falls over laughing*

It’s chaotic. No, I do not sit down at 9 am and work through to 5.30pm. But somehow it does get done.

Right I’m going to try to take this seriously (Puts on stern face)

My first main characters had been running around in my head for […]

Age – perception and reality

I will no longer see 20, 30, 40, 50 or even 60, but I don’t see myself as old. In my head, I’m still 28. Okay, possibly 32.

Last week, we hosted our children and grandchildren in the middle of a heatwave – up to 37C. By the end of the week, I felt 100 […]

Writers about writing

Alison and Morgen Bailey

Alison and Morgen Bailey

Writers can’t help talking about writing, especially when they meet other writers. When I was invited by Morgen Bailey to take part in the online Self Pub Fest in January, I enthusiastically said yes!

Self-Pub Fest is a quarterly in person book festival celebrating self-published authors. The online festival […]