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Countdown to the Road to Murder

12 Thursday May 2022

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C. P. Giuliani, Sapere Books, The Road to Murder, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries

A week and a day to publication!

Eight more days, and the Road to Murder will be out there… It’s an exciting time – full of last-minute dds and ends together with the people at Sapere Books – and also a slightly terrifying one… Continue reading →

Life as a mystery writer

08 Friday Apr 2022

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historical novel, murder, research, stab wounds

Because I’m busy tweaking things, and filling gaps, and this sort of things in TW2*, yesterday I up and asked my mother’s physiotherapist what the best entry point would be for a stab wound in the back.

“I want it to quickly give the victim breathing trouble,” I explained – and, having spent half the morning poring over medical journals, even spouted that I probably wanted a bad case of tension pneumothorax… Continue reading →

Burning the midnight oil…

01 Friday Apr 2022

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first draft, writing, writing at night

Midnight – and rather later, in fact, because it was half past three in the morning when I added the last word to Draft 1 of ATP, Tom Walsingham’s second foray into espionage and sleuthing. Hooray!

And then it wasn’t really the last word, of course. You all know how it is: as soon as I’d saved the thing and done a back-up, I had to open it again and add one more little paragraph, and then a little later an idea occurred to me, and I jotted it down in the notebook, and by then I was wide awake anyway, far too excited to sleep, so I could have gone another hour without great difficulty – but the fact was, Draft 1 was finished, and it was well past four, so I went to bed, and found that I could sleep after all… Continue reading →

A bit of panic – or, The Great Duck Mutiny

24 Thursday Mar 2022

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deadlines, Emma Darwin, overwhelm, rachel aaron, theatre, wordcount, writing

I didn’t post last week.

I found myself on Thursday morning with no post ready and no good idea… Continue reading →

And Draft 1

10 Thursday Mar 2022

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book 2, deadline, draft 1, draft-0, Tom Walsingham Mysteries, writing, writing experiment, writing schedule

Well, no – this is not to say that I have finished Draft 1… I’m about halfway through, though, and it is not an entirely bad place to be at this point.  Oh, I do have almost daily bouts of How Will I Ever Meet The Deadline, but it is a common disease, and actually I’m pretty much on schedule, so what does one do, except ignore the bouts and write on? Continue reading →

Names, names, names…

27 Thursday Jan 2022

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Historical fiction, languages, names, naming characters, research, spelling, Tom Walsingham Mysteries, writing

Yesterday I spent a good deal of time perusing lists of names of Guild members in 16th century Bruges. It’s one of the many wonders of the Internet that you can find this sort of thing for the asking… and, as I said, I ended up spending a good chunk of the afternoon going through list after list, copying the promising ones in my notebook – one column for given names, one for family names – trying them out for size, and even involving a Dutch-speaking friend for a sense of how a few of them would be pronounced… Continue reading →

Something new

20 Thursday Jan 2022

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draft-0, plotting, pre-draft, writing, writing experiment

I’m not sure whether it truly qualifies as stepping out of my comfort zone – but I’m definitely trying something different with what we’ll call, for now, Tom Book 2 – or, even shorter, TB2. Something I’ve never done before. At least not the way I’m doing it now… Continue reading →

So let’s begin!

06 Thursday Jan 2022

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2022, New Year resolutions, Procrastination, the Anansi Archive

So here we go – New Year and all… and let me say that I’m slightly surprised at myself. And I’m slightly surprised because, for once and for a wonder, I don’t seem to be suffering from January Blues – or at least not much.

More than slightly, perhaps, especially when you consider the times we are living in… but still. Continue reading →

December, December…

02 Thursday Dec 2021

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novella in flash, the walsingham mysteries, theatre, writing

Once upon a time, December used to be a rather non-writing month, all given to Christmas preparations. Crafting ornaments and decorations, trimming trees, baking Lebkuchen, making the pudding, searching for presents, listening to carols… this sort of things.

I just believed – in all naive honesty – that there was no time to write in December… Continue reading →

The other one

30 Thursday Sep 2021

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ideas, long term project, new ideas, Stories, writing

I’m sure you know how it goes.

You are working on a project. A long term one. Longer than you planned at first, perhaps – but sometimes things have their own way of stretching into something else, and… and… oh, you do know how it goes. Continue reading →

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