It does however require a few adjustments to our pattern of living. Like many people we’re in the middle of a heatwave at the moment though, living near the sea in the southwest of England, it’s not unbearable. I can reveal that the title of the new novel is: By a Hand Unknown and it’s set in the east of England, in the beautiful area known as the Broads, a region of rivers and lakes and wild places. I know many of my readers read late into the night I want them to be able to sleep afterwards!
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Like A Crack in the Varnish, it’s an intriguing character-driven mystery with light and dark moments, a little eccentricity and some fun dialogue, but definitely no horror or gore. But the WIP is now a work completed and fully edited and I’m really happy with the way it’s turned out. I’m shocked to find I haven’t written a blog since January 5th! Where has the time gone? Well, writing mostly. Even so I’m beginning to feel the familiar excitement about it – I dare say no more yet! 13 July 2022 The next book in the Dechansay Bright Mysteries…
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And I have also started researching material for the next book, the third Dechansay Bright Mystery, though it’s still just a series of random ideas at the moment. Yes, I know I mentioned Christmas but it is approaching all too rapidly. I am back singing with a local choir, preparing music for Christmas concerts. We also have confused ladybirds which would normally be hibernating by now but are still on the move, albeit rather drunkenly. It’s still surprisingly mild here though and some plants have recently flowered, thinking it’s summer. At least, we’re no longer a building site. The garden revamp I mentioned in my last blog is largely completed though, with winter coming on, the final touches will have to wait a little longer.
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Details of the new book are available on its dedicated page on this site, as well as the option to download the first chapter and see if it’s the kind of book you like to read. I had a signing/launch of the new book at our wonderful local bookshop, (see photo) and again courtesy of the great staff at Kingsbridge library. How awful that would be, though fortunately it hasn’t happened yet…
Many thanks for that! It’s always a little nerve-wracking putting a new book out - your pet project, your ‘baby’ which you have laboured over for more than a year. The new novel, By a Hand Unknown, has been published more than a month and is already garnering some great feedback. The last few months have been really busy so it’s good to have a little breathing space now. Your characters can lead you such a dance… 12 November 2022 The next book in the Dechansay Bright Mysteries - Published! I don’t even know myself how it might turn out. It’ll be a bit different to the preceding two in the series but I can’t say more than that at the moment.
Sometimes the best ideas come to me when I’m thinking about something else or just enjoying a bit of down time. The apocryphal stories of writers suddenly dropping everything and desperately reaching for a pen and paper are not far from the mark. It has to grow and develop, quite often when you’re not even thinking about it. Since my last blog post I’ve succumbed to the general round of winter viruses – probably made worse by having managed to avoid them throughout the pandemic! – which has slowed progress a little but a good story can’t be rushed anyway. So far, however, so good and I’m thoroughly enjoying writing it. There’s the usual mixture of excitement and apprehension about whether the jumble of ideas and loose plotting will ultimately come together to make a compelling story. I’m twenty thousand words into the third (and the last for the time-being) of the Dechansay Bright Mysteries. And I’m writing again a new adventure has started. Even so the birds are providing a magical dawn chorus every morning and jaunty flowers resolutely dance in the wind. 24 March 2023 Next book takes its first tottering steps!Īfter an unusually cold winter, spring has finally arrived here in southwest England though the weather is still proving temperamental.
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