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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 – Jeremy Duns
Jeremy Duns is a journalist and non-fiction author as well as writing a number of excellent spy novels described by William Boyd as “wholly engrossing and sophisticated”. He grew up in Britain, moved to Sweden in 2004 and now lives … Continue reading
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Shelf notes: Viral by Helen Fitzgerald*
The internet, and social media in particular, means that drunken mistakes, a misguided off-the-cuff remark or even an unfortunate choice of dress can result in viral videos, out-raged mobs with torches and pitchforks and all manner of other mass outrage. … Continue reading
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February’s writing – deadline looming
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” So said Douglas Adams. But I need deadlines. Give me all the time in the world to do something and it doesn’t get done. Give me … Continue reading
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Nine reasons why if you’re a writer then you almost certainly need a blog
Last week I claimed that writers should blog as part of their social media activities and was planning to move on to talking about recent changes in blogging, whether writers should make use of them and how they could do … Continue reading
Why writers need to blog and why it doesn’t need to be scary…
Authors are regularly told by their agents and their publishers that she should be using social media to promote their book. That’s good advice and in the past I’ve given plenty of talks to authors, publishers and booksellers about how … Continue reading
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