Day one went very well! We danced from 10.30 to 4pm (with breaks for lunch and for getting from one spot to another) and I ended up bringing a couple of spoonfuls of fruit salad and pasta salad home with me. So the volume of …
Read MoreBring out the Bento
Long story – I do a lot of dancing. My knee is suffering. I want to lose weight so I can dance more with less pain. So I’m currently on the Slimming World diet. This is all very well when I’m at home and life …
Read MoreNew Day, New Title!
I’ve been offering the next book in the Dancing Detective series free to people who sign up to my newsletter, so my subscribers will be glad to know that I have finished all the editing I had on my plate, and DD volume #2 is …
Read MoreMoodboard for Rory
I was asked “What five objects define your main character?” and for Rory these ones came to mind. Cookware, brogues, a panama sunhat, an expensive camera. Plus bonus portrait and dancers. The kit of the dancers is wrong for the Fenland Boggles, but was chosen …
Read MoreTypes of Cozy Mystery Sleuth, part one
aka it’s time for me to catch up on some background reading. I’m finally doing the second draft of Murder of a Straw Man. The plot and the bare bones of the book are done already, and now I’m adding fine details and making sure …
Read MoreChristmas Playlist
This time of the year all the old favourites come out again, and there’s a certain nostalgic pleasure about that. But sometimes you do wonder if there’s ever been any other Christmas songs. Does it really have to be Slade, Bing Crosby, Baby it’s Cold …
Read MoreMorris Dancing Murder Mystery?
As a writer friend commented when she saw my book description, “What is a morris dancer?” Here Wikipedia comes up trumps with a really quite accurate page on all the different styles. If you have a vague idea of a morris dancer, you’re probably thinking …
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