The following passage is from my novel,The Diary Keeper, set in Kraków in the snowy winter of 1992 - not unlike the one we're living through right now! The book is a tongue-in-cheek love story about a cranky photocopy-shop owner, Leo, and a mysterious young woman, Tamara, who keeps returning to his shop with a [...]
Hello, fellow readers, writers and bloggers! As any writer will tell you, there’s nothing better for inspiration and motivation than a bloody good, heart-warming review. And I've had several lately, thanks to the 'blog tour' journey that my novel, Infinite Stranger, recently underwent. For the unenlightened, a blog tour is when passionate readers who are [...]
The lovely piece of artwork that I chose for this post is something I unexpectedly received from a reader of "Infinite Stranger". She messaged me to say that this is how she visualised the seaview bedroom of my protagonist, Leah Cavanagh, who lives with her single mother in Lyneham-on-Sea, on the western coast of Lancashire. [...]
When Father Matthew and I woke up again, at some unknown hour later in the evening, the wind had stopped. I turned my head towards the latticed window, buried deep within the thirteenth-century stone wall, and noted with an unbearable sadness that it had stopped snowing. Phantom hills were now visible, rolling and colliding into [...]
As a special mid-summer promotion, I'm offering free downloads of my novel all today and tomorrow. If you take up this offer and read my book - and hopefully enjoy it - then it would be great if you could post a review on Goodreads or Amazon, or both! Reviews are the lifeblood of all [...]
“New book recalls death of journalist murdered by terrorist in Cyprus” A couple of weeks ago I approached a journalist on the Lancashire Evening Post with a proposal. No, not marriage (hope he wasn’t disappointed), but rather, to write a feature about the true facts behind my recently published novel, Infinite Stranger. Much to my [...]
Eleven years ago today, my mother died. Sixty-six years ago, her fiancé was murdered. Ten years ago, the first ideas for my book were forged. Today, memories can live on via the pages of my semi-autobiographical novel, Infinite Stranger. My mother – the real character of Molly Williams in my book - was a charmer. [...]
Wendy Skorupski 