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...
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...
