A little freeform blogging on a calendrical adjustment. Feb 29th is an unusual day. Partners propose, workers appear to work an extra this month for no extra pay (I used to ask my boss about it, but I never got a straight answer) and there’s a certain sense of being out of step with the norm. …
Month: February 2016
Authors & Books – Capital Crimes
How many of us have travelled into work or sipped our morning coffee at home, thinking about how we’d commit the perfect crime? Since Edgar Allan Poe’s The Rue Morgue was first published in 1841 we’ve taken short crime fiction to our darkened hearts like no other genre. Revenge, justice, greed, power, madness, the thrill of it, a …
The Spy Who Loved
How many times have you heard the phrase ‘not your average hero’? When Thomas Bladen first came into my consciousness / novel / repertoire, I knew very little about him. I could write it all on a large stamp:1. No ninja skills.2. Not suave and sophisticated.3. In a relationship of sorts.Pretty average, in fact. The relationship …
Authors & Books – Out of Phase by Neil Roberts
As you know, I love doing author / writer interviews, especially when the genre is one I don’t generally write for (never say never, right?). It’s also a great way to get inside someone else’s head without Thomas Bladen’s surveillance skills. I was delighted, therefore, when Neil Roberts – a writer buddy and someone I …