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The Small Writer and the Huge Deadline – an instructional tale

14 Thursday Jul 2022

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getting unstuck, historical novel, murder mystery, Procrastination, research, writing

Once upon a time, there was a Small Writer with a Huge Deadline.

The Huge Deadline was still rather far away – and that was perhaps the heart of the problem. Had it been looming large, roaring nearer and nearer, the Small Writer would have been writing like mad, and piling up a nice daily wordcount, and biting her nails, and drinking tea by the gallon, and generally doing what she was supposed to do… Continue reading →

Sometimes it is the small things

28 Thursday Jan 2021

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Historical fiction, murder mystery, Sapere Books, Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Henry Cobham, writing

 

They stopped Walsingham and Paulo, my Italian, whom they seemed resolved to rob [… and] another Englishman in his company, called Skeggs, as I remember.

On the twelfth of November 1581 Elizabeth’s Ambassador in Paris, Sir Henry Cobham, wrote to the all-powerful Secretary of State – and spymaster – Sir Francis Walsingham . It was almost in passing that the ambassador slipped in this bit of information about the misadventure of Sir Francis’s much younger cousin, nineteen-year-old Thomas, riding as a diplomatic courier between London and Paris. Continue reading →

Floating between drafts

29 Thursday Oct 2020

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drafts, historical mystery, murder mystery, Road to Murder, Tom Walsingham Mysteries, writing

Yesterday I finished, for all intents and purposes, the second draft of Road to Murder. Well, it was today, technically, around two in the morning – but still. I finished the second draft. Continue reading →

Hear-ye hear-ye! (or, Sapere Books and I)

03 Thursday Sep 2020

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murder mystery, Publishing, Sapere Books, Sir Francis Walsingham

I believe I’ve hinted, now and then, at a work in progress labeled “TW”, set in Elizabethan times and hopefully destined for promising developments?

Well, o Readers, the developments have happened, and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve signed a publishing deal with the wonderful Sapere Books! Continue reading →

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