Writing Diary – Point of View Extract from my writing diary as I wrote book 2 in the Lake and Carver series: Today, I decided to change the point of view of the killer. I’ve already written a number of scenes from his perspective, all in the third person (he thinks, etc), but it just […]
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0141978611 Background reading for a new novel occasionally turns up a book that I just want to tell everyone about. The Body Keeps the Score is one such book. A surprising number of us will experience significant trauma of one kind or another in […]
VIRAGO GHOST STORIES: The Twentieth Century Volume II Edited by Richard Dalby Virago ISBN: 1-85381-259-5 As Halloween approaches and the nights draw in, I thought I’d suggest something seasonal. An evening by the fire with a good ghost story is one of the pleasures of autumn, and this selection, spanning the twentieth century, has plenty […]