by Andy | 22nd Dec 2018 | Bloodhound Books, CSI Eddie Collins, Writing
I was going to begin this blog post by saying, “I can’t believe this is the first blog post since May of this year!” But I won’t say that because I can believe it.2018 has been one of the most intensively busy years I’ve ever lived through. It’s also been one of the...
by Andy | 8th May 2018 | CSI Eddie Collins, Ledston Luck, The Note, Writing
Story Execution – (contains spoilers) This is my answer to a recent question posed on the Advance Readers Team on Facebook. Click here to go to the page. Here is that question: Can you tell us how you develop a novel plot? I find neither the ideas nor the...
by Andy | 20th Mar 2018 | A Long Time Dead, Bloodhound Books, CSI Eddie Collins, No More tears, Scrivener, SOCO Roger Conniston, Stealing Elgar, Writing
I cannot believe that this is my first blog post of 2018! Where has all the time gone? Such a lot has happened over the last few months that I hardly know where to begin. The End of Lies, over three months since its release, continues to do well. On Goodreads it has...
by Andy | 13th Dec 2017 | Bloodhound Books, Covers, The End of Lies, The Note, Writing
From 1985, when I first started writing, right up until 2002 (or thereabouts) I dreamed about getting an agent and getting a publisher. Back then it was really the only way to go if you wanted to be a serious writer. And I did. In 2001 I hit the jackpot and landed a...
by Andy | 15th Nov 2017 | Covers, Life, The End of Lies, Writing
Also known as Operation Shitmepants. Over this last week or two, so many people have asked, “What’s it like?” They’re wondering what publishing a book is like, not whatever it was you were thinking. Go wash your mind out with soap and water. The day of publication...
by Andy | 30th Jul 2017 | Bloodhound Books, CSI Eddie Collins, Writing
A lot has happened since May, and what follows is a resume of those two months. The latest CSI Eddie Collins novel, provisionally entitled The Death of Jessica Ripley continues to gather dust on the shelf here in the Writing Pad. I began it in March and blitzed...
