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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.
Tag Archives: advice
Writer? Four podcasts you should be listening to…
Podcasts only really appeared on my radar when Serial was a huge hit a couple of years ago. The wonderful thing about podcasts is that although some are very professional, it’s a medium that almost anyone can create content for. … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Bestseller Experiment, Joanna Penn, Lani Diane Rich, podcasts, Sarah Painter
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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
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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Tagged advice, blogging, blogging for writers, social media
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Winning, validation, and fortune cookies
Last weekend I became a writer, and an award-winning one at that, and I learnt never to doubt a fortune cookie prediction. In lots of ways, it was quite a turning point. I told you last week that I’d been … Continue reading
Posted in My Writing
Tagged advice, Bloody Scotland, crime fiction, fortune cookies, Pitch Perfect, writing
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