Spooks and the intelligence community they work within is one of the hardest subjects to research. Because of the secretive nature of their work, which lingers long after they’ve retired, and for the sake of the security of their country, most spooks not only don’t talk about their work, but often even their families don’t
You may not be aware that, in another life, I run a productivity blog for writers, the Productive Indie Fiction Writer. I have been interested in productivity for a long time, and the blog is a natural outlet for that interest. When I was researching a blog post for the site the other day, I
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Today is International Chocolate Day. You should absolute celebrate that! Preferably with a good book, and a really good cup of tea or coffee (chocolate goes brilliantly with both). Did you know that chocolate –especially dark chocolate with high cacoa content and little or no diary–has health benefits? It’s good for your heart, among other
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I am participating in a small and select BookFunnel giveaway for the next few day. If you’re looking for a new historical romance also to add to your collection, head over to the promotion site, here, and pick up a sample free. Promotion ends on September 8. Enjoy! Cheers, . Get the news that no
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There have been some fantastic reviews for this second book, Dragon Kin. Also, I can see that many people are heading back to book one, Born Of No Man, and picking that up, too. Dragon Kin came out just over a week ago. If you like King Arthur, and you like historical romance, and you
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Back in March I ran a post about the horrifying episode of Planet Earth II that ran on the BBC, showing recer snakes gobbling up baby iguanas as they rushed for the beach. I thought that one was bad enough. Since then, I have tripped across another island. This one is called Ilha da Queimada
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I just finished rereading Kiss Across Tomorrow, as part of my editing and cleanup process, and I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed it. That seems self-aggrandizing, but I’m very pleased to be able to say it, because when I stopped writing the series a year ago, I had started to get a teeny
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I first posted this in November 2015, but there has been some changes since then! Notes on the way through… There were two major influences that drove me as I wrote Heart of Vengeance, one of them positive, the other horribly negative…but I’ll get to that one in a minute. The positive one was an
The Good Story, the Bad Story and My Story – Revisited. Read More »
I haven’t been teasing, not exactly. But I have been getting an awful lot of email from readers who are keeping up with the Scandalous Scions series and are dying to find out how Cian’s story goes. Cian has been flirting with love for many years now, and his is not a straightforward story. It’s tied
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If you’ve been following my blog posts for a while, it is probably not a big shock to you if I tell you that I am subscribed to several productivity blogs. One of them, Zen Habits, recently put up a post about deliberately scheduling reading time into your day. If you’ve never deliberately schedule something that
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