by nikkicopleston | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog
I’ve finished it! The fourth DI Jeff Lincoln novel is completed. I thought I’d rattle through it during Lockdown, with more time on my hands and, in theory, fewer distractions, but like a lot of people, I felt a kind of underlying anxiety that made it...
by nikkicopleston | Jul 5, 2020 | Blog
I hadn’t been well. ‘Walk every day, Brian,’ the doctor said, ‘as far as you can. You’ll be right as ninepence in no time.’ It was springtime, so being outdoors was no hardship. I walked as far as Manor Fields, what’s left of...
by nikkicopleston | Apr 25, 2020 | Blog
These are strange times, with lockdown in its fifth week amid fears that the unseasonably warm weather will make people complacent about social distancing. This time in 2014, I was in Penzance on holiday. It was my first visit to Cornwall, and I hope it won’t...
by nikkicopleston | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? I thought rewriting the first Jeff Lincoln book would take a year, maybe, but it took quite a bit longer than I expected. Still, I’m glad I did it. It was written so long ago, none of the characters even had a mobile...
by nikkicopleston | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog
I went along to Winchester Writers’ Festival last week – not to attend the talks, but to share a sales table with fellow writers Jude Hayland, Sue Russell and Elspeth Tavaci. Although we all write quite different sorts of material, we got on like a house...