April 10th: Encourage a beginning writer day

It's encourage a beginning writer day. With two books published (more info below) I'm not sure I can call myself a "beginning" writer any more, so it's not a hint that I need encouraging! It's an excuse to put up 10 quotes about writing.

1. Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
2. Write drunk. Edit sober. Ernest Hemingway
3. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no-one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham
4. Write what you like; there is no other rule. O Henry
5. If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. Margaret Atwood
6. Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down and write it as it occurs to you. The writing is easy - it’s the occurring that’s hard. Stephen Leacock
7. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly
8. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E.L. Doctorow
9. Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. Terry Pratchett
10. If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison

Death and Faxes

Several women have been found murdered - it looks like the work of a ruthless serial killer. Psychic medium Maggie Flynn is one of the resources DI Jamie Swan has come to value in such cases - but Maggie is dead, leaving him with only the telephone number of the woman she saw as her successor, her granddaughter, Tabitha Drake.

Tabitha, grief-stricken by Maggie's death and suffering a crisis of confidence in her ability, wants nothing to do with solving murder cases. She wants to hold on to her job and find Mr Right (not necessarily in that order); so when DI Swan first contacts her, she refuses to get involved.

The ghosts of the victims have other ideas. They are anxious for the killer to be caught and for names to be cleared - and they won't leave Tabitha alone. It isn't long before Tabitha is drawn in so deeply that her own life is on the line.

Paperback - CreateSpace or Amazon 

Or get the E-book: Amazon Kindle (Where you can use the "Look Inside" function and read the first few pages for free!)

Glastonbury Swan

Every few weeks, there is a mysterious death in Glastonbury. They seem completely unrelated - an apparent suicide, a hit and run, a drug overdose, a magic act which goes horribly wrong - but is that what the killer wants people to think?

The police are certainly convinced - but one of the victims is communicating to medium Tabitha Drake that the deaths are linked.

Who is killing all these people and why? 

This is what Tabitha has to figure out - before it is too late to save someone very dear to her.

Paperback CreateSpace or Amazon

E-book Amazon Kindle