Today, I'm delighted to welcome Vivien Brown to my blog, with a fab guest post. Over to Vivien … How Family Feeds My Fiction Vivien Brown Since giving up the day job and becoming a full-time writer, it’s been hard to separate the two halves of my life – family and work. After all, they exist side by side under the same roof. My ‘office’ is a bedroom upstairs, my ‘works canteen’ is my home kitchen, and a call arriving on the phone on my desk is just as likely to be from a frie

Today, I'm delighted to host a guest post from Lorraine Mace about her writing life as an author of hard-boiled crime fiction. Over to Lorraine... The Killer Touch - Lorraine Mace I write what is termed hard-boiled crime and I’m often asked how I come up with story ideas. I always give the same response: I have an evil mind. The knowledge that I know more ways to kill people and cover up the crime than the average woman doesn’t help my partner to a restful night. I think he’s

London’s theatre district – Theatreland – is one of my favourite parts of the city. There’s nothing quite like the heady atmosphere of the West End on a Saturday night when audiences are streaming into the theatres that line Shaftesbury Avenue and the Strand to see a play or a musical. I visit the theatre as often as I can, and I knew for a long time that I wanted to write a novel set in that world. Not that I’ve ever had any ambition to be a professional actress (I did take