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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: Sarah Hilary
Tastes Like Fear (published today) is the third Marnie Rome novel by Sarah Hilary. Winner of the 2015 Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year with her first, Someone Else’s Skin, it’s been a busy year and Tastes Like Fear (my … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, interview, Sarah Hilary
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Ten reasons why you shouldn’t have an author blog. Or, managing your expectations
I firmly believe that authors should have a blog, even if only updated on a weekly basis, as part of their website so if you didn’t see my last post about that then do pop along and do that. I’m … Continue reading
March’s writing – the joy of having a beta reader
Cripes, this wasn’t my best month for writing in terms of actual new pages generated. I had a bit of a crisis of confidence along the lines of ‘this is terrible, why am I wasting my time, no-one will ever … Continue reading
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Friday Five – literary links you might have missed
Five literary links in this week’s round up… I’ve seen this image of a woman burning a copy of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover many times but didn’t realise that the picture was taken outside The Paperback Bookshop in Edinburgh, … Continue reading
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Tagged Eilis O'Hanlon, Lady Chatterley, literary Edinburgh, Mason Cross, plagiarism, publishing, writers' block
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Shelf notes – Tastes Like Fear by Sarah Hilary*
This is the third in Sarah Hilary‘s DI Marnie Rose books and a series which was new to me – I must get hold of the first two at some point. I loved Marnie – caring, smart and formidable, exactly … Continue reading
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