Following on from my last post, here are the chapter headings from my last book, The Mannequin House. My next book, The Dark Palace, won’t have chapter headings. The House of Blackley The Locked Door The Usual Misunderstanding Speak of the Devil Hear No Evil The Weeping Mannequin The Secret Letters The Spare Room …
I decided to try something new (for me) with my latest book. (The Dark Palace, out in January 2014.) I decided not to have chapter headings. I love chapter headings. Which may be why all of the books I have written so far have them. But somehow I felt that they weren’t right for this …
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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?