Welcome to my Web Site
Hello, and thank you for visiting my site. I've included details about me, my books, and the other kinds of things I do connected with writing. I hope you find it interesting.
As well as writing novels and occasional articles for The New Writer, I've written 'how-to' books, and I now self-publish some of them as Tudor House. I talk to writers' groups and run lots of courses, such as at the Writers' Holiday at Caerleon and sometimes at the Romantic Novelists' Association conference.
I read and appraise dozens of scripts each year and edit scripts for a publisher. I also review published novels for the Historical Novel Society.
I help to run the StorytrackS appraisal agency which has administered several of the Harry Bowling Prizes awarded every two years for a first chapter of a novel with an urban setting and a romantic element.
So perhaps I can help other writers. I've had years of experience tutoring and critiquing, as well as learning from my own mistakes, discovering what works and what doesn't. If you are a writer, I hope you'll find something useful here. If you are a reader, perhaps some of the information about how writers work, how some of my books were born, will interest you.
Ebooks
My five Midlands sagas and fifty-five other novels are now available as Ebooks in popular formats from
**Smashwords**, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Sony, Kobo, Apple, Regency Reads, W H Smith, Diesel
See the Saga, Contemporary, Crime and Suspense and Historical pages for details.
** 50% Discount available on selected ebooks for limited period ** - A Cut Above the Rest and Runaway Hill
An early historical, Sibylla and the Privateer, is now in Ebook.
A new historical Crime From Knife to Noose under a new pseudonym Caroline Clare is now available as an Ebook.
Regencies
My latest regency is The Chaperone Bride - Now available as an ebook from Smashwords and Amazon.
Most of my regencies have been published by Robert Hale:
- Gretna Legacy 2010. Large print 2011
- Scandal at the Dower House 2010. Large print 2010. Now available as Ebook
- Supervising Sally 2009. Large print 2010. Now available as Ebook
- A Disgraceful Affair, 2008. Large print 2009.
- The Accidental Marriage, 2008. Large print 2009. Soon to be in Ebook
- Courting Lord Dorney, 2007. Soon to be in ebook.
- At the Earl's Command, 2007. Now available as an ebook.
- A Cut Above the Rest, my venture into writing crime, was published by Severn House in 2004, and in large print by Dales in 2006.
- It is now available as a Ebook, along with three other Dodie Fanshaw mysteries.
- See the Crime and Suspense page for details.
Ten of my Sally James regencies are now available as Ebooks
See the Sally James Regencies page for details.
Write and Sell your Novel has been revised to a 4th edition, Beginner's Guide to Writing a Novel, published by How To Books January 2006.
Writing Historical Fiction has been superseded by a new Writing Guide, Writing Historical Fiction, published by Studymates October 2005.
