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Experimenting on Humans

that’s really what I’m doing, when I write a story. They are only thought experiments, and my characters aren’t exactly human either, so I’m not doing a great deal of harm. The worst I am doing is boring the people who have to read what I write – my other experimental subjects   At the [...]

What's in a pen-name?

Of course, I am procrastinating again, especially when I look back at Bian’s blog about business names, where I suggested keeping it simple, and personal. What should I be doing? Well, I have just submitted my entry for the Crime Writer’s Association Debut Dagger competition. I have written my first chapter of 3000 words, and [...]

Are crime writers guilty

Are crime writers guilty of murder, or something worse? Image via Wikipedia The Sisters in Crime blog started me thinking, when they asked this question – “Does it bother you, that you write murder as entertainment?” I’m in the middle of writing my first crime novel at the moment, and I’ve been reading crime fiction [...]

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All that jazz – All in A Day

If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]

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