My life doesn’t often have a theme. But one does seem to have been emerging over the last few days. It started with the annual, bank holiday, medieval-style charcoal burn that my other half and I get involved with at the Forest of Dean Heritage Centre and it continued this evening when we drove up […]

Anyone following me on Twitter will know that I’ve recently come back from Crime Fest in Bristol – a 4 day jamboree of crime writers and readers from all over the country and, certainly in the case of the readers, from across the Atlantic. You have to hand it to them, American crime fiction lovers […]

So now I’m on Twitter. People warned me that it would be addictive and, though I can see where they were coming from, I’m not addicted. No. What I am is anxious. Anxious, on the one hand, that it shouldn’t take over my life. And, on the other, not to miss a trick. Also, anxious […]

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On my first whirl around the publishing merry-go-round, at the end of the noughties, I did the social media stuff: I had somebody build a website for me, sorted out a blog via Google’s Blogger and set up a Facebook page. So far so media-savvy-sounding. Trouble was, I hadn’t the faintest idea what I was […]