by Andy | 29th Feb 2020 | CSI Eddie Collins, Life, Other Writing, Short Stories, Writing
Time Just as we hit the third month of the year, I squeeze out my first blog of 2020. Doesn’t sound very glamorous that, does it. Hmmm. This blog post is about learning. And how I don’t do it. In the last three months I’ve learned that I’m still no good at advertising...
by Andy | 30th Dec 2019 | Life, Writing
This is the final blog post from me in the year 2019. I don’t like looking back into the past. And there is a reason for it: my memory is appalling. But I feel compelled almost to dredge through the blurred images of months gone by and convert them to text. What have...
by Andy | 19th May 2019 | CSI Eddie Collins, SOCO Roger Conniston, Writing
I remember saying it took many years for me to open up to my colleagues and tell them I was a writer. That was partly because I’m still shy of mentioning that little fact, but mostly it was because I thought my writing was shit. God help me if anyone I knew actually...
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 | 11th Apr 2019 | CSI Eddie Collins, The Death of Jessica Ripley
I’ve split this blog post into two halves because I wanted to tell you about the new book but without spoilers until you’d had a chance to read it first. Come to think of it, I’ll put the rest of this post on the website under the tab The Story of… > The Death of...