Hello everyone, I’m incredibly happy to say that I’ve got some good news to share with you. I’ve got an agent! Earlier this year I returned to my first manuscript The Woe Waters to give it a work over and ensure that it was as good as it could possibly be. Any writer will tell …
So I’d edited and polished, polished and edited my debut novel – it shone! But now how to find a literary agent who loved it as much as I do? There’s so many agents listed when a search on Google is done, where to even begin?! I admit I was lost. I didn’t want to …
In early December 1926 the mistress of crime Agatha Christie became the subject of a real life mystery that could have graced the pages of one of her own books when she went missing for ten days. Following a nationwide hunt Agatha was eventually discovered, ostensibly suffering from amnesia, in the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in …
Whether you are a crime writer or a crime fiction fan Theakston’s Crime Writing Festival is the place to be at the end of July each year. For a few days Harrogate, a normally civilised, understated spa town in North Yorkshire, becomes the beating heart of all things criminal. Of course Harrogate was famous for …
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What have the Romans ever done for us… oh okay, not that old joke! But now it seems they have provided the inspiration for Alison Morton’s debut novel Inceptio. Although I’m a prehistorian I have a soft spot for the Romano-British. They weren’t ‘real’ Romans but our own version of Romans, Britons with a Roman …
