WRITER'S DIARY

As you will see if you click on `Site News` my very first attempt to write was in 1981 during a quiet spell between properties. The main Character DCI Jim Langton is divorced and is moved temporarily to Abbottsford. I based this novel on Shropshire and Cheshire. The Book origunally was`A Course for Investigation`. Obviously based on a Golf Club. It remaned under that title when I submitted it to `Book 4 Publishers of Bridgnorth, Shropshire in 2001. I believe they have moved to Ludlow now. It was changed at my wifes suggestion to `Death is a Member` in 2006 when I submitted it to Athena Press. They agreed with my wife that it was a better title.That is the title the book was finally agreed on. So my first book really took about twenty three years before it finally came to fruition. If you go to Site News in the menu bar, you will see the reason for this long gap.From June 2006 is the period in my life I took to serious writing. In 2007 I wrote `Murder in the Ascendant` very quickly. a matter of three months. Trouble now was my eyes were failing me. I had to give up driving in 2007 because of Glaucoma. My determination to write is still with me and I can now say I have completed the trilogy of Crime novels I set out to do. The third one is ` When the Hammer Falls` but I have a subtitle which is `The Sixth Commandment`. I hope it will be out in March or April this year 2010, the title I will leave to the publishers.

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Book Reviews and Author interviews. This is a great American Website. Have been of real assistance to me

http://www.armchairinterviews.com/

The Bookseller Website is another good site to search through. Plenty of tips for the new writers

http://www.thebookseller.com/

Another site I recommend for new writers

http://www.youwriteon.com/