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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.
Author Archives: vanessa
Author Interview – Judy Astley
The first Judy Astley book I read, aptly as it was her first novel, was Just For the Summer. Set in a largeish village on the Cornish coast it concerns itself with the comings and goings of the second-homers, arriving … Continue reading
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October’s writing – write, delete, repeat.
Back at the end of September I mapped out my writing plans for October and was feeling pretty positive. You can already see that ‘but’ looming can’t you? The ‘but’ is that the cold I came down with in September … Continue reading
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Laptop and latte – the best cafes for writers, Edinburgh and beyond
JK Rowling famously wrote Harry Potter in Edinburgh cafes (although not in as many as claim to be the birthplace of Harry P. I suspect) while other writers can’t imagine in other than complete silence or away from their desk … Continue reading
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Tagged Archerfield, cafe culture, California, Culross, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Gallery of Modern Art, how I write, Stockbridge
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Author Interview – Lynn Shepherd, author of The Pierced Heart
“This book kept me wide awake on my last long-haul flight – a reimagining of the Dracula story. Tense, terrific.” Ian Rankin’s description of Lynn Shepherd‘s The Pierced Heart was what drew it to my attention – and that of … Continue reading
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How I blog now.
After almost a decade of churning out words on the interwebz, I’ve been looking at how my personal style of blogging has changed. I began way back in 2006, when LiveJournal was still relatively common for those who wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, evolution, Fidra Books, State of Independents
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