When I first applied for a career break from the ‘day job’, nearly two years ago, I did wonder if I was going to be able to fill my time given that the bulk of the writing I do is in November for NaNoWriMo. Sitting here in Starbucks it’s curious to look back on that, …
I’m back from the annual Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, helpfully abbreviated for Twitter purposes to the hashtag above. Last year I was on Val McDermid’s New Blood panel on the Saturday, and so I spent most of the weekend in a state of ever-increasing panic. This year my 0nly responsibility was …
I’m nearly done with the copy edits for Under a Silent Moon – just some queries to check and another read through – and today I’ve got the itch to write something new. Fellow NaNoWriMo author and all-round genius Julia Crouch calls this ‘draft zero’, the writing you do that nobody will ever see – …