by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Aug 31, 2018 | Authors and Books, Book Reviews
I love a great ghost story, and Secrets of the Lighthouse by Santa Montefiore is a unique one. The first page instantly drew me in as I pictured Caitlin, a young wife and mother, looking at a lighthouse in the beautiful Connemara region of Ireland and a tiny chapel by...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Aug 22, 2018 | On Writing
One major way in which fiction differs from reality is with closure. Readers need to have most of their questions answered by the end of the book or they feel dissatisfied. In reality, a lack of closure is commonplace and often leads to a great deal of angst. A...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Aug 9, 2018 | Checkmate Clans and Castles
There have been a lot of comments about the cover of Checkmate: Clans and Castles. Eye-catching and unusual, reviewers and contest judges have been keen to connect the dots between all the different elements, leading to this post on the thought that goes into a cover....
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Aug 4, 2018 | Authors and Books, On Writing
Our heroes often feel larger than life: Ian Fleming’s James Bond, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Daisy Buchanan, Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta or Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone. But in reality, most heroes are filled with self-doubt at one...
