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Hi, I’m Vanessa and welcome to my site.
In 2015, I won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect event and my first novel, Death Will Find Me, was published in February, 2019. The second Tessa Kilpatrick book will be out early next year and in the meantime, I’ll soon be launching a series of art crime thrillers.
You can find out more about me and what I’m up to by following the links at the top, and there are contact details below if you want to ask me any questions or invite me to talk at your bookshop, library or festival.
Tag Archives: Scotland
Writing in the dunes, imagining the scene as the German Navy surrendered…
In the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, back when I was writing an early draft of Death Will Find Me and still getting to know my characters, I saw an image from the day the German fleet surrendered to the British … Continue reading
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Tagged Death Will Find Me, out and about, Scotland, short story, World War One, writing, WW1
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Recent Links I’ve Loved
It’s time for a round-up of things that have caught my eye recently – an eclectic collection. Commercial women’s fiction, the much-derided chick-lit, is unfairly sneered at. As Lizzy Kremer, an agent with David Higham Associates, points out in this … Continue reading
Posted in Recent links I've loved
Tagged Agatha Christie, architecture, crime fiction, fiction, Kate Mosse, politics, Scotland, writing
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Bookshop visit: Toppings, St Andrews
One of my favourite bookshops is Toppings in Bath and when I heard that they’d opened a branch in St Andrews, a university town in the East Neuk of Fife and a place that I love – small enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged bookshop, Scotland, Scottish bookshops, Toppings, Wendy Cope
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Sunshine between the showers
Our current renovation project is a cottage in a converted stableyard in Fife (the picture on the left is deceptive – because of the layout of the courtyard it has only a little frontage but goes back into the corner … Continue reading
As the year turns… Reflections on 2014
I’ve been away and so this post is a tad belated, it being the 4th January already, but I’ve been thinking a lot about 2014 and what I want to do in 2015. On the whole, it was a pretty … Continue reading
Posted in My Writing, Scotland, Thoughts
Tagged Edinburgh, independence referendum, Scotland, Writers Workshop, writing
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