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November 30, 2021

The last few days I have been busy setting up my Editorial Services, named The Accomplice because my mission is to aid and abet readers and writers to have fun creating as well as to indulge in productive procrastination

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You can contact me via either of those pages or via my Substack. You can check out what that’s about here, and please do subscribe if you are interested

Thanks,

Ann



Waking Up

November 14, 2021

It’s completely the wrong time of year – a time when I’d usually be sinking into hibernation – and yet I finally feel as if I am waking up. Moving house twice during a pandemic is not something I’d recommend to anyone. If you have lupus, as I do, it’s really not a good idea. …

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Before The Dawn – and After

October 11, 2020

I can’t quite believe it’s been six years now since we saw Kate Bush. Given the ill health which has messed me about before and since, I swear I will never complain about her timing – even though we did have to wait thirty five years between concerts. The first time we saw Kate perform …

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Who reads crime fiction?

August 10, 2020

I was asked this question earlier today, and I started to write… It turned into a bit of long, mad ramble! How very me… So here it is. Feel free to disagree, or to add in anything I’ve missed – whether it’s a favourite crime writer or another subgenre, or a different demographic. As I …

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Last chance to win

August 8, 2020

I’ve really enjoyed The Witch House’s first week out in the world, and it’s been great to have so many positive reactions from readers. Thank you all! The Witch House games close at noon tomorrow, Sunday 9th August For a chance – or several chances! – to win Witch House themed prizes – novels or …

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Publication Day! The Witch House is here…

August 4, 2020

It’s a really emotional time of year for me. On 4th August 2016 I was admitted back into hospital with complications following surgery for hernia and an enormous ovarian cyst… 5th August 2017 I was admitted back into hospital with complications following surgery to fix the problems left by those complications… (None of it was …

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Tapestry

March 10, 2020

I’ve been making good progress on the writing front – I think I’m finally at the penultimate draft of the memoir before I start sending it out to agents. That means writing a query letter so I’m both keen to get it finished and not in any rush at all… Also I am about ten …

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Best Valentine’s Ever

February 14, 2020

At least, since 14th February 1979… Ryan, my then boyfriend, had failed his Uni exams the year before, purely co-incidentally three weeks before the end of summer term, at around the time we got together. He’d gone back home and found a series of jobs while waiting for permission to retake the year, and somehow …

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Inspiration

December 20, 2019

As I am dilly-dallying about starting work on my third novel, I am casting around for inspiration, waiting for a couple of ideas to collide in a way that sparks my interest – enough to keep me going for at least a year. Looking back, I can see more clearly what the first two novels …

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Fun with Penises

November 28, 2019

I do apologise. I don’t think I’ll ever manage a more clickbaity blog title. As I’m still not well enough to attend any of the book launch events, I had to do something to have a little fun. So I’ve been doing some baking. Gluten- free, of course. First, the naked cookies. I do confess …

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