A crime thriller set in Wales but written in Canada followed by advice on family meals and connecting pensions with giant vegetables.

I’d like to welcome Alice Fitzpatrick to the blog for #WriterWednesday! Things you need for your writing sessions: I need absolute silence. Things that hamper your writing: I can’t listen to music. ...

So, many years ago, when we were still in-office (so, I guess, 2019), Dwyer Murphy and I joked about putting together a list of the best fake crime novels in film and TV. You know, you’ll be …

I'm delighted to be joined by author Alice Fitzpatrick today. Alice lives in Canada but would love to live in Wales and her book is set on an island off the Welsh coast. A Dark Death was published by Stonehouse Publishing in June this year. Over to Alice to tell us all about it. Tell me THREE things about your latest book…

It started with After Party. Not an after party, but “The After Party,” as in the Apple TV show that turned heads in 2022. Bestselling thriller novelists Joe Finder and Gregg Hurwitz had watched it…

It still surprises me that early morning is my favorite time of the day. It wasn’t always so. For over thirty years, I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed at six every weekday to teach secondary …

After attending a convention in order to connect with readers, one author examines what went well and what she’ll do differently next time.

A couple of years ago, I quit my job as a tech journalist and moved to the desert to open a bookstore. My reasons were mostly to do with burnout: The dread of waking up every morning wondering what…

So, you’re in Buckingham Palace. The official London residence of the sovereign, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territo…

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In today’s Tell Me, Alice Fitzpatrick introduces me to the concept of grieving non-events, also called non-finite grief. Mourning a Life that Never Was

When A.A. Milne was a humorist at Punch and announced plans to write a detective novel, his agent and publisher told him that what the country wants from a humorist is more humor. And when, after t…

I am totally fascinated by marriages and long-term relationships. This may be because I can never get past about three years with a person before I’m running for the hills, and, if I’m honest, pref…