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The start of a new year is always exciting with the opportunity to look forward rather than back. This year my publishers, SpellBound...

Today it is a delight to welcome my friend and fellow author Sharon Cook to the blog to explain her compulsion to write. Sharon's debut...

Before I review last year, may I wish you a very Happy New Year for the year ahead. The past year has been busy. Not only have I been...

It is my great pleasure to welcome my friend and fellow author Martin J Lake to the blog today. Martin's debut novel, Beyond The Stones:...

It was a thrill to produce my first collection of short stories in time for Christmas. It includes stores about DI Hunter Wilson and his...

I am pleased to welcome author Richard Robinson to the blog today to describe a day in his life as a busy, professional author. Thank you...

It was a thrill to produce my first collection of short stories in time for Christmas. If I do say so myself, it makes an ideal and cost...

It is my great pleasure to welcome my fellow author and SpellBound Book stable mate, Tracy Stewart, to the blog to discuss why she...

I am pleased my friend and fellow author took time to visit the blog today to tell me all about his new book, An Old Tin Can . The book...

It is my pleasure to introduce Northern Irish author and fellow stable mate at SpellBound Books Ltd, Pauline Morgan, to my blog today to...

The novels I write are crime novels written from several points of view. My firat editor, the wonderful Sue Barnard, had a great deal to...

Every writer understands the importance of support and encouragement from others who understand their passion. Writers' groups, writing...

I only started my writing career after I had been treated for breast cancer and took early retirement. Who would have thought that...

The first novel in my Jane Renwick Thrillers series of novels is The First Cut . The second in the series, A Fighting Chance, will be...

In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. Themes can be divided into two...

Many years ago when I first attended The Writers' Summer School that meets each August at the Hayes Conference Centre in Derbyshire,...

It is my pleasure to welcome back to the blog my friend and fellow author, Michelle Cook. Michelle writes dystopian fiction and I'm...

This month I visited the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate for the first time this year, largely because my...

The main setting for the DI Hunter Wilson Crime Thrillers is Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is so important that it is almost...

I am pleased to be part of the tour for the new book, Wild Flowers, by Richard Robinson and published by SpellBound Books Ltd. The tour...