DO NOT KEEP SILENT
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “A brilliant book…
gripping storyline and strong characters.” – Reader Review
In Hong Kong, speaking out is dangerous. Mae Yang spent years building a protest she knows may destroy her. Arrest, prison, disappearance. The risks are clear, but she accepts them anyway..
NO WAY TO LIVE
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Really good, well
written, a page-turner. I also loved the humour.” – Reader Review
She’s the deadliest person he knows. And now he’s betrayed her. A London gang targets a shopkeeper and his daughter, prompting Tom Adams to leave the criminal life he never wanted.
In doing so, he betrays Billie, the gang’s boss, and the
complicated history they share.
CHANGE OF LIFESTYLE
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Feels both intimate and cinematic.” – Reader Review
Focused and alone – except for Marshall Law, an Indonesian cat with attitude – he finds the perfect hideout in a decaying residential compound. Finally, he begins to write the espionage novels he’s been planning for years.
LIFE IN SHADOWS
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “It flows, it has energy and it’s a good read. You are left wanting more.” – Reader Review
Thirty years ago, Charles Shaw wrote a masterpiece. He hasn’t written a word since.
Sent to Bangkok to finally get the story, journalist Michael Hayes expects to find secrets, not love. And he never expects that one reclusive genius, a beautiful woman, and a city that swallows you whole might force him to confront everything he’s been running from.
I wasn’t expecting to teach myself writing lessons when I wrote a novella, but I did. Most aspiring writers have plenty of imagination, but exhausted by their day jobs, they have no energy. Before I wrote Change of Lifestyle, I’d seen it happen repeatedly in different writing groups: aspiring authors with sprawling imaginations who never finished a WIP because their day chewed up their energy.
Did you ever wonder what someone might make of the research you do for a Work in Progress? I’m currently writing The Killing Kind, the third book in my Angel of the South series. Each book is set mainly in South London. It’s a gritty, noir crime series with lots of humour. Here are six things I researched for Book 3 this week.
My short story Life in Shadows is an exploration of writing and writers, and how both can be damaged. While writing it, I learnt a few craft and life skills along the way.
Writing without a plan, I managed to type 14,300 words of The Killing Kind, my new WIP, this week. 14,300 words. It’s a height I haven’t scaled since lockdown, and I think I’ve reached it partly because I’ve been writing without a plan. To Plan or not to plan?
The Feline Sentinel – How a cat serves as a narrative anchor In my novella Change of Lifestyle, Gabe Shaw flees London for a self-imposed exile in Jakarta. He intends to kick start the writing career he has long wanted. In exchange for staying in a friend’s empty apartment, Gabe looks after Marshall Law, , a streetcat with a mean attitude and the Indonesian genetic defect of a stunted, gnarled tail.
How The Antagonist Took Over I wrote a Christmas thriller, something closer to Die Hard than Love Actually, with a smattering of the latter thrown in. But it turns out that like Hans Gruber in Die Hard, my antagonist took over. Locked Down With No Christmas Trappings I was living in Riyadh, without any Christmas.
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