Keeping the Pressure Up: High Pressure by Sam Blake
Stories appear in the most unexpected places. Pre pandemic I used to visit London regularly
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Stories appear in the most unexpected places. Pre pandemic I used to visit London regularly
From the moment I read The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
Titles are hard. Like, really hard. Even when you think you’ve got a good one,
Straight after starting my shift in the ER, a 70 year-old man is brought into
56 Days is a thriller set in lockdown that I wrote while I was in
I may be drawing my pension but I am a baby writer – not even
It’s rare that a first novel goes on to be published. Most authors have a
Much like air dancers at a garage forecourt, shiny new characters often leap to the
For as long as I can remember, stories have been my way of making sense
I think my writing career started at the age of five, when I fell in
In 2018, I sent a basic outline to my publishers about a novel that was
The basic idea for The Counterfeit Candidate had been buried inside my head for over
“What is a Cig?” I asked the man sitting opposite. He was a guard who
Just as my eighth novel, The Housewarming, came out of lockdown#1, growing as it did
I was always that kid in the back of the class with my nose stuck
Writers can find reasons to be anxious about just about anything to do with the
It was 2012, and I was fresh off a second round of maternity leave –
When my publisher, Joffe Books, told me that I had been shortlisted in The British
Le Fanu’s Angel had its genesis in a true story. An acquaintance of mine, call
A KIND OF DROWNING is a big departure for me both in subject and style
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