‘Wow, you all looked so glamorous back then!’ my daughter said to me the other day, with more than a touch of envy. We were browsing through a selection of old photo albums from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and happened to stop at one particularly fetching snapshot: the one I ended up selecting [...]
You can always tell an excellent book from the visceral reaction it evokes in you when you read that last page. So, as I sat up in bed this Sunday morning while finishing the final chapters of Winnie M Li’s Complicit, the proverbial lump came to my throat. Know the feeling? That deep, inner satisfaction, [...]
Here we are again. Another October, with russet-golden leaves coating pavements, parks, avenues and riverside walks in mellow autumn hues. Sunday, October 29th. That’s today. The clocks have just gone back, and the scary-creepy-scary day is almost upon us. The fancy dress party day. The horror movie-watching day. Scream day. Yup, it’s Halloween time again! [...]
Don’t you sometimes just want to grab Time by the scruff of its neck and drag it backwards? Yell at it, “Stop moving! Stop running away from me! Hey, I haven’t finished here yet, dammit, I’m only halfway through … WAIT, can’t you let me take a breath before hurtling forwards again?” And how does [...]
Have you ever tried keeping a diary? No? Or perhaps you've had a go, maybe even several, but always given up in the end? The thing is, to be a true diary keeper, as I am, you have to have be just a little bit obsessed. But that's okay, we're all a bit obsessed about [...]
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 [...]
Wendy Skorupski 