Hello everybody   You may have noticed that it's about month since I last posted here. On the other hand, you may be thinking "thank the lord for that. A bit of peace and quiet."   Actually, I call in every day, usually to chuck th... Read more

Hello you lot   How would you like and absolutely free, no string attached read?   It's not often a Yorkshireman will give owt for nowt and if nothing else I am an archetypal Yorkshireman.   However, I have a new novel due ou... Read more

As you know, just before I went away I signed contracts with Crooked {Cat} Publishing for The Filey Connection, first of the reinvented Sanford 3rd Age Club Mysteries. I then jumped on a plane and cleared off to the Canaries for a week. It just as... Read more

Good morning Writelink friends and anyone else kicking around the site.   You'll forgive me, I hope, for having a bit of crow, but I am well pleased. That makes a hell of a difference for me because I'm usually the curmudgeon upon which a... Read more

Towards the end of last year, or was it the beginning of this one (I can't tell you because I can't find the post) I set myself the impossible target of knocking out 10 books by the spring. I didn't make it.   But I wasn't that far out. H... Read more

  A mirror post of the one on my main blog   I've just had a week's holiday and I'm one of life's early risers. Mrs R doesn't mind me taking a netbook along so I can work while I'm waiting for her to get out of bed on a morning, but s... Read more

Hello you lot   For those of you not already aware, my series of whodunits going under the umbrella title, The Sanford Third Age Club Investigates, has been up and running for a few months and there are two more titles due out soon: one i... Read more

Unless you live on the Moon or somewhere else where there's no civilisation (Droylsden springs to mind) you can't fail to notice that the Kindle has been a bit of smash hit this year. You're probably also aware of people like Amanda Hocking, Ste... Read more

The first instalment of a new short serial from the STAC CASEBOOK is due later today. In case you never got around to reading the first case, The Tanzanite Manoeuvre, you can find it on the casebook site at: http://dawr.wordpress.com/   ... Read more

  There are any number of posts on the site from members seeking to make a bob or two from affiliate marketing. I'm not one of them, but don't go away because I'm not criticising. Instead I'll make you an easy offer.   You're probab... Read more