Category Archives: Writing

I’ve just shared a new vlog about ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’ on YouTube – take a look at https://youtu.be/JnADVherxXg In the vlog I talk about 2 large changes that I’m making to the story. Firstly I’m removing the references to Brexit – the plot of this book isn’t driven by that andContinue reading “Latest vlog about “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller”…”

I just posted a new vlog about ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’ on my YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/NJZKVxQbRls In this vlog I talk a bit about the Political-Economic-Social background to the story, share some of my inspirations for Lissa Blackwood and my hopes for finding an agent to help sell the series ofContinue reading “My latest vlog about “Evil Eye” is now on my YouTube channel…”

I’m really excited to announce that the first draft of “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller”, the opening book in my new series of post-Brexit Conspiracy Thrillers, has been completed. Research for this book began towards the end of 2016, planning lasted until about May 2017, and this draft was completed today! I’m lovingContinue reading “The first draft of “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller” has been completed!”

I’ve just added another 1300 words to ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’ this morning. There are now just 5 scenes left to write and the first draft will be complete! Those 1300 words surprised me – they come at a moment when Lissa Blackwood is trying to work out how to poison theContinue reading “Just 5 more scenes to go and then the first draft of “Evil Eye” will be complete!”

Had a lovely afternoon walking with my daughter and spent some time brainstorming a title for my current work in progress… and I’m pleased to say it now has one! So… drumroll and fanfare please… the name of my next book will be… Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller I’m hoping to have theContinue reading “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller”

I really must find a title for my current project, a post-BREXIT espionage Thriller! That’s my goal this weekend… if I achieve nothing else, and I might not in the current UK heatwave, it would be great to get a title together for this story. Progress has been intermittent on this book. By Christmas IContinue reading “Progress on writing “the BREXIT thriller”…”

I was describing the progress on my latest work-in-progress (the post-Brexit espionage thriller, still untitled) to a colleague last week and stunned myself into silence when I made a connection that I hadn’t seen before… A few years back I read my way through some of the popular works of the most famous philosophers andContinue reading “Thrillers, Espionage and Nietzsche…”