What’s THIS one about?

What’s THIS one about?

The fourth book featuring Detective Inspector Jeff Lincoln, The Promise of Salvation, is set in February 2017, a few months after the ending of The Shame of Innocence. A gale has ripped the top off an old well that’s been used by fly-tippers for years. Barbara...
The Promise of Salvation – Lincoln number 4

The Promise of Salvation – Lincoln number 4

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...
And now the waiting starts…

And now the waiting starts…

Manuscript of The Price of Silence submitted to Silver Crow Books. Check. Suggested changes made. Check. Manuscript submitted to SilverWood Books. Check. Manuscript proofread and returned. Check. Cover image ideas discussed. Check. Now all I can do is wait for the...

Letting go of Lincoln

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...

Taking time out – but now it’s back to work again!

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,...