I’m thrilled to share info about my new paranormal series, Green Men, which launches on 3rd August with Spectred Isle. The Green Men series is set in England, 1923. The Great War is over, the Twenties are roaring in, the Bright Young Things hold ever more extravagant parties. It seems as though the world has […]
An Unnatural Vice, book 2 in my Sins of the Cities sequence, hits the ether today. Sins of the Cities is my take on the Victorian sensation novel. There’s murder, family secrets, disputed inheritance, peculiar lines of work, ongoing love stories, and fog. Lots of fog. In fact, An Unnatural Vice is set during a […]
Or, I Read Something Annoying So Now I Have To Rant About It: The KJ Charles Story. Specifically I read a piece about sensitivity readers. I am not going to put you through it because those are minutes of your life you’ll never get back, but suffice to say the linking tweet read “Sensitivity editors […]
Writers frequently get asked by aspiring writers how we come up with stuff. Should you plot it all out first using those spreadsheets and index cards and lists of “beats” , or make it up as you go along? Do you know from the start who the bad guys are and what’s going to happen? […]
I am in a good mood because I have the rights for my ex-Samhain titles back and am about to launch my gorgeous new covers for the Charm of Magpies series. (Watch this space.) Therefore, a spectacular, if random, giveaway follows. Regular followers will know that I support Saracens rugby team. If you’re thinking, blech, […]
This post ought to be filed under “Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious”. I hope most of you reading it will mutter “duh” and move on. Everyone else, kindly have it tattooed on an unobtrusive body part. The author’s biggest mistake is not, as you may think, having your heroine gaze into a mirror itemising her […]
I watched the animated film Storks the other day. There are many silly things about this film, but the one that stuck in my throat was this. Here is a stork. Here are the storks in Storks. Those are seagulls. Look at the heads. Look at the beaks. Seagulls. This was bugging me the next […]
Readers of An Unseen Attraction will be aware that our hero Clem’s housekeeper makes a pretty good ginger biscuit as a cure-all for distress. The ginger biscuits were not long in coming, and Clem was pleased to see their restorative effect. He wasn’t sure what Polly put into them, and nor was anyone else; there […]
In which I introduce my new Victorian Sensation queer romance trilogy, with FAQs and illustrations. (Art by the ubertalented Mila May.) What do you mean, Victorian Sensation? I’m glad you asked me that. The Victorians were far from being the repressed nothing-on-Sunday bores of popular imagination. The snobs and the moralisers are always with us, […]