by nikkicopleston | Jun 9, 2019 | Blog
Nearly thirty years ago, I embarked on the novel that would – well, not change my life, exactly, but take it in a new direction. Until then, I’d written several novels of indeterminate genre, although a certain criminal element had been creeping into the...
by nikkicopleston | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog
Harvey takes time out Last year was a busy one: several talks with other Silver Crow authors, creative writing workshops with my fellow Stellar Scribes, Sonja Price and Jan Ellis, and appearances at a couple of literary festivals. Talks in bookshops, church halls,...
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 | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog
The opening line of ‘A Saintly Grave Disturbed’ had been kicking around in my brain for years. Originally, it introduced one of the various sequels to ‘The Price of Silence’ that I embarked upon before eventually starting (and finishing, and...
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...