Tag Archives: Lissa Blackwood

Crawling around inside Nuclear Bunkers…

I was stuck on how to make a section work in the closing scenes of ‘Evil Eye’ (my latest thriller novel) – it all revolves around moving unseen inside an active nuclear bunker – but these are intimate places and, looking at images online, I was getting very bogged down. The (now) cliched fiction solutionContinue reading “Crawling around inside Nuclear Bunkers…”

Just 5 more scenes to go and then the first draft of “Evil Eye” will be complete!

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!”

Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller

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”

Progress on writing “the BREXIT 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”…”

Thrillers, Espionage and Nietzsche…

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…”