The Easthope stories

Most of my novels are set in and around the fictional seaside town of Easthope.

Counting down… 8 days to go!

I really am on the last lap now… I am doing one last read through of The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’. Even though I have been working so hard on it recently I came across “he was was staring at her,” today. There are other little things too… and I’ve got in such a muddle about commas […]

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Reading aloud

It’s the last lap now, doing the last that I can to make ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ as good as I can.. It’s so difficult to be objective about something I am so familiar with, I must have read it tens of times, I have watched it in my head, lived with it… but to gain objectivity, to spot the grammatical errors that spellcheck doesn’t throw up, to notice the […]

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In the press!

This a repost of a previous blog: I was very grateful to my local newspaper, the Weston Mercury for publishing this article and my photo: They are not quite correct in saying that FARHOLM is based in the real islands of Steep Holm and Flat Holm, although I used their Scandinavian names. If anywhere, Rathlin […]

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