The copy-edits are done. Ahead of time. In the end, there wasn’t much to sweat about. Turns out that the copy editor doesn’t like sentence fragments. Like this. I don’t over use them. But I do use them. From time to time. For effect. I do other things copy editors don’t like. Knowing they won’t …
Let me start by saying I have always been lucky in my copy editors. (I know it could be different because I have heard some real horror stories.) Despite this, I will confess to finding the whole copy-editing process stressful. For that reason, I delay the moment of opening the file for as long as …
Well, you’ve got to get into the zone, haven’t you?
I’m doing a couple of events next month. Or gigs, as we like to call them in the rock’n’roll world that is historical crime fiction. The first is on Sunday October 13 at St Mark’s Church Hall as part of the Wood Green Literary Festival. I’ll be chairing a panel on London in crime fiction (or …
… is up on Amazon. And it says: April, 1914. Against his better judgement, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn is attending the premiere of the new motion picture by notorious Austrian film-maker Konrad Waechter. But the glamorous event is interrupted by the piercing screams of a young woman in the street outside. She has been viciously …