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Another little tempter for you…
As you may know, my new novel THE STALKING OF ROSA CZEKOV, is about a woman whose unexpected act of courage in a hostage situation brings unwelcome attention from a stalker. Her cousin Tyche, arrives in the small seaside town of Easthope on a mission to find the stalker. She arrives back from a visit to London: She was […]
MoreSix days to go… and what inspires me!
I’m keeping up the pace, revising, revising, revising, ready to get ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ published next week. What keeps me going… many things inspire me but here are what really keeps me going:
MoreCounting 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 […]
MoreIt’s getting serious… last editing going on NOW!
It’s June tomorrow… and at some point – I’ll let you know when, ROSA will be published on Kindle. So I am now in the last stages of editing, because as a self-publisher I have to do all that myself… and it’s tricky. I have to admit there were some typos and errors in ‘Farholm’ but I […]
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A great inspiration to me
It maybe breaking copywrite, but I want to publish this obituary I have just come across to someone who had a fundamental and profound influence on me as a child and is the reason I am writing a blog today. At last I am a writer – I have always written but now I that is what I do, […]
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Lois Elsden 