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My latest vlog about “Evil Eye” is now on my YouTube channel…

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…”

The first draft of “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller” has been completed!

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!”

From ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’: A walk across London in the footsteps of the Head of SIG, Colonel Peter Carson, DSO with Bar, MC…

Towards the start of my new Lissa Blackwood thriller called ‘Evil Eye’, her boss, Peter Carson, faces the challenge of knowing that on that day he will be the target of an assassination attempt. Now fifty eight years old, as a young man Carson had originally intended to train as a chemical engineer. However, inContinue reading “From ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’: A walk across London in the footsteps of the Head of SIG, Colonel Peter Carson, DSO with Bar, MC…”

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…”

Awestruck by the drive & dedication shown by the climbers in the film “Meru”…

I’ve just finished watching the film “Meru” on Netflix and I was left completely in awe of the drive and dedication of the climbers to reach the peak of Mount Meru, a nearly 22,000-foot tall Himalayan mountain. In 2011, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk were the first people to reach its summit viaContinue reading “Awestruck by the drive & dedication shown by the climbers in the film “Meru”…”