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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: Writing
April’s writing…
Looking back, I seem to spend a lot of these monthly round-up posts justifying why I haven’t written as much as I should or would have liked to. There’s always something, whether that’s family dramas, crises of confidence, sheer bone-idleness … Continue reading
What I worry about when I worry about writing
The worries I have about my novel are a random selection of middle-of-the-night mental rabbit-holes that my imagination plunges down. Oddly, unlike the myriad worries listed by Susannah Felts in this great post on Lithub, my night-time panics aren’t so … Continue reading
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Tagged imposter syndrome, middle-of-the-night worries, writing
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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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The wisdom of Ira Glass and why it’s ok to worry that your creative endeavours aren’t good enough
Like almost every writer I know, I worry that my work isn’t good enough. That it never will be good enough. That I should forget about writing and accept that I am a consumer of other people’s creativity and not … Continue reading
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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