by admin | Jan 31, 2018 | General, Hacked
The first book in The Eulalie Park Mysteries series is now available to buy on Amazon Kindle. Book description: Marcel Faberge is not a popular man. When he turns up dead, there is no shortage of suspects. Unfortunately, one of them is Fleur, the best friend of...
by admin | Jun 28, 2017 | General
There is a certain kind of murder mystery that belongs to the golden age of mystery fiction. This is the so-called play-fair mystery that was pioneered by Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie, and the writers of Ellery Queen. It is constructed in such a way that the...
by admin | Jun 20, 2017 | General
If a flashback is a backwards jump in narrative time, and a time jump is a forwards jump, then head hopping is usually a sideways jump. Another possibility is to have two or more narratives running concurrently, often from different time periods. We’ve all read...
by admin | Jun 14, 2017 | General
My geek credentials are far from impressive. Real geeks would scoff at the idea of my claiming any geek status whatsoever. I am not a gamer. I don’t watch horror movies. I don’t read graphic novels published after about 1992. The Star Wars franchise is a...
by admin | Jun 1, 2017 | General, Uncategorized
Gustave Flaubert, the author of Madame Bovary, is famous for writing his books slowly and painstakingly. I first heard about Flaubert’s slow-muse reputation in the work of P G Wodehouse, the British humorist who was famous for writing his books extremely fast....
