Following on from Clare's Bouchercon-inspired post yesterday, I'm going to share an "are you a writer" conversation I fell...

"Sorry, what was the question?" asked the crimewriter.  She'd been cooking, editing and preparing interview questions all at t...

What a great question!  I've never, in all my list-making, floor-plan-drawing, map-copying, outfit-sketching obsessiveness ever actuall...

Funnily enough, I'm answering this question in my childhood bedroom, in the house where I was born, where my three big sisters taught me...

I can't quite believe I'm doing this - because I do love her; honest I do - but my bad classic is by Dorothy L Sayers.  Not only th...

I'm reading Close to The Bone, Stuart MacBride's 90mph head-on multi-plot pile-up of a novel right now, since we're on a panel t...

How timely this question is!  I've just hit SEND on the edited draft of THE DAY SHE DIED, my second contemporary stand-alone for Midni...

There's three categories of books I can't read while I'm writing.  (Writing meaning first-drafting; chipping the virgin story ou...

I'm the wrong person to ask about day jobs because I've so rarely had a day job I either a. liked or b. was any good at.  For sure, ...

That's Dandy Gilver's, Opal Jones's and mine. Dandy Gilver's mother started her off with a good smack in the chops by nami...

Reece on Monday said it was unimaginable that anyone didn't.  Hilary on Tuesday said it was a big fat lie that anyone didn't. Chris ...

Q: Having come up with a perfect murder, isn't it annoying not to use it get rid of some numpty?' (I translated, being unequipped to...

Dandy Gilver is a unenthusiastic wife, a half-hearted mother, upper-class, a city-lover, relies on sevants to do everything from cooking her...

I was going to say I don't have any writing rituals that would count as superstitions; all I have are sensible working practices.  But, ...