lovecrime

lovecrime

33 years old
Female
Location
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Current Status
Have been shortlisted in a competition, but the announcement of the winner has been delayed. Nail-biting.
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  • Are you a ...?
    Writer published in mags, etc
    What genre do you primarily write in?
    Crime
    If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
    Poetry
    Are your reading habits ...?
    Pulpy
    Who is your favourite author(s)?
    Mark Billingham, Stuart MacBride, Brian Masters, Charlie Brooker
    And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
    My brain can't cope. In no order: Kill Your Darlings - Terence Blacker Messiah - Boris Starling Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham Halfhead - Stuart MacBride On Writing - Stephen King Stiff - Mary Roach Killing For Company - Brian Masters
    What are your working habits when you write?
    Procastinatory
    Are you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?
    Ten times? Why so little?
    Your ultimate writing ambition?
    Being nominated for a CWA Dagger. It can even be for cooking or good housekeeping, I don't care (actually, that's even less likely to happen than me winning the Diamond Dagger.)
    Your worst habit?
    Taking a comma out then putting it back twenty-seven times before deciding to delete the entire sentence.
    Your opinion on the books industry?
    It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
    Where do you write?
    in bed since my son took over my office
    What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?
    I once appeared onstage with Jimmy Cricket.

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Currently obsessed with a detective character who won't leave me alone. I often dream as him and wake up very confused.
I've had poetry, short stories and articles published in print magazines such as Twisted Tongue, Trespass, Raw Edge, Prima, adc (arts disability culture), a story in the 2nd BHF Book of Horror Stories, and poetry in ezines.

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  • Elysia
    by Elysia 1 year ago
    Happy Birthday, Lovecrime! Hope to see you back here soon... ^^D
  • Rebecca Holmes
    by Rebecca Holmes 1 year ago
    Crikey, you must be feeling bad. Eastenders will only make you worse. Why not try some Leonard Cohen to cheer you up?
    And keep trying. We hear all about successful authors, but we don't hear the full struggle of how they first got published.
  • maryluv
    by maryluv 1 year ago
    Did you take the peice down? I just went back for another read and it's gorn!
  • Liss
    by Liss 1 year ago
    oooh Birmingham!
  • Charlie
    by Charlie 1 year ago
    Isn't it shameful that the BBC seems unable to acknowledge that there were good people on board those ships? Mankell has been arrested but isn't held with some of the other Swedes so not sure what it means - better treatment coz he's too well known or worse?
  • Weens
    by Weens 1 year ago
    Have you bought your ribbons for ME/Fibro awareness day? I've just bought five for all the family. If I have anything to do with it, they will wear them all the time not just on the 12th.
  • Rebecca Holmes
    by Rebecca Holmes 1 year ago
    That's brilliant news! Good luck. Where was the holiday,btw?
  • Elysia
    by Elysia 1 year ago
    Ooo, fingers crossed indeed! I hope everything goes well for you, lovecrime. xx
  • Spangles
    by Spangles 1 year ago
    Congratulations on your wonderful news. My fingers are firmly crossed for you.
  • Khaloth
    by Khaloth 1 year ago
    Congratulations with the ms request :)