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I go ‘viral’
about time too! Who sold over 1,000 copies of their debut self-published novel ‘Case Closed Monday’?! I did… 669 people saw fit to comment on this via ‘Threads’ – and they say the internet is ‘negative’. Other than that I have been applying to The Arts Council – I fancy a research trip to the…
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Go slow!
Sometimes life has a way of slowing us down even though we would rather it didn’t. In actual fact setting up my new computer is taking a lot longer than I thought it would. I journaled consistently through October but it was all horrifically personal – I don’t think I can look back at it.…
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Early on in the fictional fifties
It was my birthday at the end of September hence the radio silence, I found myself journaling a lot over this time – something about getting older that lends itself to self-reflection maybe?!
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Quilty as charged!
I write crime fiction and have thus far been able to publish my work on my own using Amazon and social media marketing. My next project will be ‘The Leiston Riddle’ – this is the story of Maggie and Jake two teens who become inadvertently involved with a murder investigation headed up by DCI Mike Doggett:- DCI Mike…
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I’ve been stealing myself
in that I know I’ve got to keep on writing…about what and whom is less clear… I studied film-making at University – well it was really a Polytechnic and I was the awkward girl who didn’t seem very awkward compared to the other students. In fact one of the technicians straight out asked me ‘What…
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Knife in the Water
I don’t tend to find current affairs very uplifting but I did find myself taking in that a super yacht has gone down off the coast of Sicily and that two bodies have been recovered. There followed a bland description of a rescue operation that couldn’t really have been less evocative (Radio 2 – I…
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Magical realism – Firefly
The divine heat haze of the day will soon ebb into the cool of a summer’s evening notwithstanding the bathroom towel rail still emitting a steady 45 degrees Celsius all the better to dry my new swim wear. Secondly these Sarfolk houses do maintain the damp rather too well and often need a good drying…
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Chairman Mao
Hello! Having moved it is time to orient my self to a different part of the same town. A new space to write in; a new hairdresser (maybe) and best of all my lovely new kitchen! And what is even better – a new url – the fictional fifties dot com. Since I started writing…
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Hello world!
This is my author website – ‘The Fictional Fifties’.