I'm absolutely appalled to discover that it's been so long since I posted anything here. On the other hand, I'm a great believer in not saying anything if you don't have anything to say; a childhood surrounded by people who could talk to Olympic standard left me firmly convinced that it was better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to ( Read more... )

In case anyone's wondering why I've been so quiet for the past few months, it's for the most banal and boring of reasons - I'm not doing any writing at the moment.  It's not that I'm blocked, either - I've got plenty of ideas - but unfortunately life has conspired against me and I literally haven't had any free time.  I know all about 'a writer ( Read more... )

Recently, Brandon Shire asked me to write a post for his blog; this year he's highlighting books his readers recommend as 'gems you may have missed', and MAKE DO AND MEND fell into that category.  It was of course a great compliment and I was happy to oblige - but at the same time it reminded me that I've let life overwhelm me a bit recently, and I ( Read more... )

A conversation between Adam Fitzroy, author of The Bridge on the River Wye - released by Manifold Press on 1 February 2014 - and Julie Bozza, author of Of Dreams and Ceremonies. We hope you enjoy listening in! And if you have any questions of your own, please feel free to ask via our blogs, Goodreads or Twitter.


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With the kind permission of manifold_press, here's a copy of a guest blog I wrote for them which appeared yesterday.

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At first, it seemed to me that I might have difficulty deciding on a subject for my guest blog, since my fellow authors have already staked out the territory so ably. I feel much the same way as F.M. Parkinson about proof-reading and ( Read more... )

Believe it or not I had actually managed to forget all about the Rainbow Awards winners being announced overnight, but I can assure you now that the penny has well and truly dropped! Word came through before I was properly awake this morning that BETWEEN NOW AND THEN had been a runner up in the Paranormal Romance category, swiftly followed by the ( Read more... )

I was thrilled to see Elisa Rolle's review of BETWEEN NOW AND THEN when I woke up this morning, and in particular I loved her speculation about precisely why it was set in the winter of 1991/1992 ( Read more... )

I'm embarrassingly aware of the length of time it's been since I updated this LJ.  It isn't because I've forgotten about it, or even - alas - because I'm so busy on a new book that I just haven't managed to find the time.  No, unfortunately, it's the outside world that's been getting in the way, and it's caused a radical revision of my plans ( Read more... )

I gather some people have received strange e-mails from 'me' containing just a link.  As someone so rightly said, it seems to be one of those virus things that just runs through a mailbox and sends things to random addresses; I hope nobody was seriously inconvenienced by it ( Read more... )

It's coming up to two years now since STAGE WHISPERS was published, and I truly thought that it had failed to find its audience.  It is, as Elisa Rolle pointed out in her lovely review at the time, a very 'English' book, packed with parochial concerns, and is set in the less-than-glamorous world of provincial theatre - where, if magic happens, it ( Read more... )