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Tom Walsingham 3 – Draft 0

07 Thursday Jul 2022

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drafting, Historical fiction, plotting, research, Tom Walsingham Mysteries

Remember when, back in January, I told you that I was experimenting with the idea of a Draft 0 for A Treasonous Path, and I’d let you know how it worked for me? Well, it would seem it worked well enough, because I’m doing it again. Six months later, and I’m at work on Draft 0 of Tom’s third book – for now TW3. Continue reading →

Robin Blake’s Cragg & Fidelis

30 Thursday Jun 2022

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Cragg & Fidelis, historical mysteries, Historical Novel Society, Robin Blake

I was going to say that I don’t quite remember when I read my first Cragg and Fidelis mystery… But of course, thanks to the archives of the Historical Novel Society I can tell precisely: it happened when I reviewed the fourth installment, Skin and Bones, back in 2016. Continue reading →

A story of time capsules

17 Friday Jun 2022

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Sir John Soane's Museum, time capsule

Ah, but I do love the Soane Museum!

They are doing works in Sir John’s drawing office, and they find a hollow space at the base of a column, containing three small objects that, judging by their combination, and the way they are arranged, look like a time capsule… Continue reading →

And… it’s out!

20 Friday May 2022

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Publication day, Sapere Books, The Road to Murder, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries

Rejoice with me!

The Road to Murder is out. Continue reading →

The Road to Murder is up for preorder!

03 Thursday Mar 2022

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Amazon, C. P. Giuliani, Elizabethan spies, historical mystery, historical thriller, Preorder, Sapere Books, The Road to Murder, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries

And I’m very, very happy to announce that you can now preorder via Amazon The Road to Murder – Book 1 of the Tom Walsingham Mysteries! Continue reading →

The Road to Murder – Cover reveal!

10 Thursday Feb 2022

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cover reveal, historical mystery, Sapere Books, The Road to Murder, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries

And for the first time in nine years, I leave aside my beloved colour scheme of black, grey, red and white, because really, this one you must see in all its splendour… The lovely people at Sapere Books sent me my cover – the first cover for the Tom Walsingham Mysteries…

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“Go the way, vilain!”

03 Thursday Feb 2022

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British History Online, Calendar of State Papers Scotland, historical novel, primary sources, swashbuckling

After finishing Draft 0 last Monday, I’ve spent this past couple of days up to my chin in primary sources, thanks to the wonder that is British History Online. Continue reading →

The thing with science fiction

21 Thursday Oct 2021

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china, formosa, murray leinster, Science fiction, taiwan, time tunnel

Over the years, and very much by trial and error, my rather difficult relationship with science fiction has come to work essentially like this: I give a very, very wide berth to everything dystopian and pre/post/apocalyptic; I’ll let myself be tempted by some carefully chosen, strictly past-bound time travel* now and then – and that’s it.

Now, please, let’s not go into whether time travel is proper sci-fi or something else or its own genre, shall we? Let us just observe that my last foray, Murray Leinster’s Time Tunnel,** was published and marketed as such in 1964 – and leave it at that. 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 →

You really should write this…

02 Thursday Sep 2021

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narrative licence, reality and fiction, Stories, story ideas, writing

They come to you, and say that they have a story, a really good story that you should really write.

In time you learn to recognize this, a certain gleam in their eyes from the very first moment someone mentions that you write. Then they sit on it, they observe you, sometimes they ask questions, trying to determine whether you might be the right person… Continue reading →

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