I’m in a bit of a quandary, not sure what to title these little murder mysteries on Amazon – so that everyone can find them without having to search each title individually. Trouble is, I can’t decide. So I’ve put together a poll on Facebook to canvas your views. If you’d like to help out,…
Why is it that during a rewrite you realise that if you’d only done it this way in the first place you wouldn’t be sitting inside on a bank holiday weekend. Of course, if Symington Byrd had told me in the first place he needed to witness this murder, not hear about it second hand……
One of the points coming out from the reviews is the amount of characters. Would a cast list help? Lindsey Davis does it in the Falco novels. I considered it but was talked out of it. Now, I’m not so sure Was thinking something along the lines of: Symington, Earl Byrd. Prime minister’s personal detective.…
Forgive my tardiness in thanking everyone who took part in the Cowardice of Crows Blog Tour. My world was upended on the Friday before it commenced. My oldest friend, John, who had a cabin on the boat died. He’d been ill, but the rapidity of his descent from semi-wellness to death was sudden. Five days.…
I found out this morning that A Cowardice of Crows is being read via the Kindle Unlimited Program – by three international readers. This humbles me. Thank you for finding Byrd and his world. I hope you enjoy.
Books arrived from the Traditional Printer on Monday. Hubby spent the week parceling some of them up to send to the reviewers on the blog tour. Having just dropped the last lot at the post office for them to do their magic and deliver them, he is very pleased with himself. I just can’t stop…
Four years ago, the OH and I put our victorian terrace on the market and commissioned our boat. A huge lifestyle change brought about by the need to reduce my commute to work, and a desire to get out of the rat race and by our desire to travel Europe when I retired. Our area…
I went back to the old website. Mainly to see if there were any old posts I wanted to bring over. There weren’t. Or at least nothing that immediately stood out. Then I stumbled over this one from 2014. These were my initial thoughts about some of the characters in the first book. Some things…
S.E. Smith 