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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.
Category Archives: My Writing
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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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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January’s writing – not just about words on the page
I began 2016 feeling pretty positive about my writing and where the novel’s going and I’ve got a fair amount written this month, if not quite the 20k I planned here. But there have been a few writing-based happenings this … Continue reading
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Typing, typing, typing…
This week I had planned some lovely blog posts but they’re not going to happen I’m afraid. Next week should be marvellous though – I have an interview with the marvellous Joanna Cannon, a post about blogging (it’s a decade … Continue reading
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December’s writing – hitting the target
After my plot breakthrough at the end of last month and my arse-kicking (in a kind way!) from Mark Leggatt, I set off into the not-so-snowy wastes of December with the goal of having 20k of pretty clean text finished … Continue reading
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