by nikkicopleston | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog
Looking forward to talking at Yeovil Library on Friday 13th October, as part of Somerset Libraries’ National Libraries Week celebrations. And what a week it’s been! I’ve already seen the evidence of libraries’ importance: at Wells Library last...
by nikkicopleston | Oct 1, 2017 | Blog
At the last of this summer’s writing boot camp sessions, Brenda was reading from her new work-in-progress. She’d only just started writing it – a story set in the countryside in the early years of the 20th Century – so as she was reading it...
by nikkicopleston | Jul 21, 2017 | Blog
Maybe it’s because I’ve got a smiley face. Maybe it’s because I look like a comfortably upholstered ex-librarian. Whatever the reason, people seem surprised to learn I write crime fiction. Not ‘cosy crime’ either, but murder mysteries...
by nikkicopleston | Feb 25, 2017 | Blog
A year ago, I submitted the manuscript of my crime novel ‘The Shame of Innocence’ to Silver Crow Books, a new service begun by Frome Writers’ Collective. During the next few weeks, trained readers assessed my manuscript and compiled a report for...
by nikkicopleston | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
The Shame of Innocence is selling well and DI Jeff Lincoln is gathering quite a fan club. But this wasn’t his first adventure. He was bumbling around in Barbury long before he crossed swords with Donal Finnegan. Before he moved into the Old Vicarage, he was...