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I’ve just returned from giving two talks in Cornwall where the sun was shining, the sea was blue and the crowds were flocking to St Ives, which was my first port of call on Tuesday morning at 11am. I met some delightful people as always and my heartfelt thanks to them for listening to me talking about how I write and for buying my books. After a quick sandwich lunch sitting in the cemetery overlooking the bay it was about an hour’s drive to St Austell Library where, once again, I met some lovely people, answered questions about my marine mystery crime novels and signed books before setting homewards. Not a bad trip back to the Solent area except that the drive belt (I think that’s what it’s called) on my Ford Scorpio decided it had had enough travelling for one week and snapped. No power steering (how on earth did we manage before) no air conditioning and a battery light that stayed ominously on making me wonder if we stopped whether we would ever get going again. But we arrived ho...

I'm lubricating my throat and polishing off my speeches in anticipation of my forthcoming talks, which start with my Pink Ladies Lunch at The Intercontinental Hotel, Park Lane, London (pink champagne will be served whilst raising money for breast cancer awareness) on Friday 8 May, followed by a visit to St Ives Library and St Austell Library in Cornwall on 12 May and finishing with an appearance at Crimefest in Bristol on Friday 15 May. It's always interesting to meet new people and to answer their questions about writing and to discuss with them my crime and thriller novels. I'll be posting some photographs from these events to this blog and to my Facebook page as well as to the other social networks to which I belong including Goodreads, Redroom and Crimespace. If anyone reading this blog is attending any of the above events then I look forward to meeting you. Hythe Library is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its move to the current building in May. I was delighted to...

I have just finished going through the copy-edit proofs for DEAD MAN'S WHARF, the new DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime novel due to be published in hardback on 29 April 2009. There weren't any revisions to the manuscript thank goodness and only a few small alterations but this is a task that I am not overly fond of. Why? Because I have an irresistible urge to keep changing what I have written. I always think I could improve a word here, a sentence or a paragraph there, but this is often because I am over-critical of what I have written. Now I have pressed the send button and it is back on my editor's desk with my fingers crossed that I don't have to go through it again. I'm looking forward to seeing the jacket cover design soon. The fifth DI Andy Horton Marine Mystery I'm also on the third revisions of the following DI Andy Horton marine mystery, which will be the fifth in the series and I have to say it is coming along a treat. Even I think it is a cracking ...