by Andy | 26th Apr 2019 | Ledston Luck, The Death of Jessica Ripley, The Note, Writing
Ideas and Execution Ideas don’t come to me easily. I usually get a small part of a scene only – I think my muse just likes to see me sweat. From it I have to grow an entire book. It usually happens on the fly too because I’m not good with planning things out. Far too...
by Andy | 7th Feb 2019 | Covers, CSI Eddie Collins, SOCO Roger Conniston, The End of Lies, Writing
The last time my back catalogue looked like this was summertime 2017, before I went with Bloodhound Books and took all of my CSI Eddie Collins books down from Amazon and the other platforms. So now I’m back doing this stuff all by myself again. And I look around and...
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...
