If you meet a man on the road you should count his fingers. That’s what they say. Count his fingers lest you deal, all unknowingly, with one of the Fair Folk. But what if the fellow you meet on the road has eight fingers and two thumbs like any other man? What if he is […]
This Question and Answer session appeared on the Crime Cymru website on the 10th of January as part of Crime Cymru’s new blog series. Different crime authors will be offering their own thoughts on their careers, other writers’ work and all things crime fiction-related each week until the summer, so if you follow Crime Cymru […]
This is the fabulous cover for the next in the Teifi Valley Coroner series – Those Who Know – which will be published in May 2020 and is available for preorder here. Huge thanks are due to The Dome Press, and particularly designer Jem Butcher, for the consistently brilliant covers for the series. And here, […]
Yesterday, I finished line-editing the third in the Teifi Valley Coroner series – Those Who Can. (We’ll come back to the title in a later post, I’m sure.) Editing’s a funny business. Some writers rely very heavily on input from their editors and there is a lot of sending suggestions and redrafts backwards and forwards […]
The second in the series of features on other people’s blogs inspired by #IndyBookTourCymru2019 is a guest post on the lovely Tomes With Tea where I’m talking about my desert island books. Spoiler alert – only one of the three is a novel. But you can find out what I consider to be the most […]
Over the next few weeks, there will be a few features coming up, here on the blog, that have been sparked by encounters with bloggers on #IndyBookTourCymru2019. First up is my appearance in Cwtch Corner, book blogger Bookertalk’s regular feature on Welsh writers. So, if you want to know: i) how I’d sum up In […]
I think it’s in Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt that a character notices how constant travel seems to make time pass more slowly and so makes your life seem longer. Whether I’ve attributed it to the right book or not (no doubt somebody will tell me) the observation is certainly true for the last […]
