setting the scene in Pitkirtly
Happy Easter! As we progress towards April, I bring the news that I've reached 49,100 words in the novel known until now as Pitkirtly XXVII. It has been harder than usual to think of a title for this one, partly because my initial idea for the storyline was based around roadworks, which turned out not …
As we settle into what is in Edinburgh a cold, wet February, I've started writing something new. I hope regular readers will be pleased to hear it's the 27th of the Pitkirtly Mysteries and is provisionally called The Way to Dusty Death. (But I hope a different title emerges as I go along - I'm …
Continue reading "February – more daylight and return to Pitkirtly"
I have a feeling there is a quotation about Fate (or maybe the gods) laughing at planners, but I've been unable to find it amongst all the 'inspirational' and mostly somewhat stern quotes about how essential it is to make plans if you want to achieve anything. However I have located one of my favourite …
I apologise for the lack of posts here in recent weeks - this is because, having had lots of spare time earlier in the year, I found October and November had turned into a great big traffic jam of things to do. Of course National Novel Writing Month has come along as it usually does …
This is just to make sure all my readers know that Two Steps to Murder (Pitkirtly 26) is now available for purchase in all the usual places - see below for links. This is the story of what happens when a music festival comes to Pitkirtly and as well as having to run the gauntlet …
Hope everybody in other parts of the UK got some sunshine before the rain came! Personally I would have appreciated a few more sunny days, but that's Edinburgh for you. I blame myself as I at last got round to watering some plants yesterday and woke up today to find the rain had watered them …
Over the past couple of days I've unexpectedly completed and published 'Rights and Wrongs', the novel I had to abandon temporarily, almost finished, at the start of April. Also unexpectedly, it has made its way to Kobo and elsewhere very quickly so I am able to add a list of links to retailers at the …
Continue reading "Rights and Wrongs – the 4th Max Falconer Mystery"
'But what were you doing on a wall?' is usually the first question people ask when I tell them I broke my hip falling off a wall. (The second and third questions are often to do with where I got my jumper and where I am from because they don't recognise my accent.) Actually the …
Continue reading "Cecilia Peartree and the (so far) Non-fatal Accident"
Somehow or other I've reached milestones in two new novels at the same time. I can now divulge/confess that I've been working on a new Max Falconer book in the mornings and a new book in one of my Regency series in the afternoons. I'm still not 100% clear about which of the Regency series …
For various technical reasons, two of my recent publications have taken a while to reach non-Amazon ebook retailers, but I'm happy to say that both 'A Little Too Fond of Cake' and 'Pamela Prendergast and the Fatal Accident' have now found their way on to most of the other sites. So this post is simply …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 