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.Information
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Are you a ...?Writer published in mags, etcWhat genre do you primarily write in?CrimeIf you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?PoetryAre your reading habits ...?PulpyWho is your favourite author(s)?Mark Billingham, Stuart MacBride, Brian Masters, Charlie BrookerAnd 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 MastersWhat are your working habits when you write?ProcastinatoryAre 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 bestWhere do you write?in bed since my son took over my officeWhat 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.
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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8th September 2011
Starting Over
novels, unfinished, writer's block
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10th May 2010The urge to edit can go too far
editing, spelling 10 Comments -
19th April 2010Learning to Fly
poetry, poem 2 Comments -
7th April 2010Priorities
blogging, writing, housework, fibromyalgia 3 Comments -
6th April 2010New group - Blood and Bones
crime, group, detective, forensics, thriller 1 Comments
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by Rebecca Holmes 1 year agoCrikey, 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. -
by Charlie 2 years agoIsn'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? -
by Weens 2 years agoHave 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. -
by Spangles 2 years agoCongratulations on your wonderful news. My fingers are firmly crossed for you.
