New Novel
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in DIARY, My Writing Life, Work in Hand | 3 Comments »On 22nd I mention a new novel. I said I would let you have a title when I knew it. Well, the working title is THE ROAD BELOW ME. A contract is on its way. The story will be set ...
Start of a new novel
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in DIARY, My Writing Life, Work in Hand | No Comments »The germs of the new idea I mentioned on 19th January after I had finished I WEPT FOR THE MORNING SUN have been developing in my mind. After discussing the broad outline with my editor at my publisher, Piatkus, I ...
WESTERN
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Books, DIARY, My Writing Life | No Comments »BLACK WATERN CANYON:- My latest Western to be published in Dales Large Print, an imprint of Library Magna Books. It was originally published by Robert Hale in 1963. It is one of 36 Westerns along with several other books published ...
Shetland
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 Posted in Books, DIARY, Jessica Blair Country | No Comments »A Shetland coastal scene, that would be seen by the whalers who figure in some of Jessica Blair's novels set in the eighteenth and nineteen centuries -- The Red Shawl, A Distant Harbour, The Restless Heart, Secrets of the Sea, etc.
Jessica Blair’s New Book.
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 Posted in Books, DIARY, My Writing Life | 2 Comments »Here is the cover of my new book due out on March 10, published by Piatkus Lives become entwined when Betsy Palmer, feeling betrayed by Jim Fenwick, falls in love with Robert Addison whose friendship with Adele Jordan is blossoming into ...
Accolade For a Writer
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in Books | No Comments »A friend said to her little girl, 'You know, Bill is a writer?' Little girl looked doubtful . 'He writes books,' explained Mum. Still puzzled, little girl said, 'Books that sell in bookshops?' 'Yes,' said Mum. A moment to digest this information then - 'WOW !!!!!'