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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: writing
Author interview: Elizabeth Chadwick
That historical fiction is often seen as a separate genre to other novels always surprises me. After all, for all that LP Hartley said “the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, surely the emotions and events … Continue reading
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12 ways to make this the year of your novel
It’s great when successful authors take time to write blog posts and articles about how to get your novel written and share their success. But I read those writers and feel even more discouraged because their advice doesn’t seem to … Continue reading
November’s writing – a breakthrough
As you might remember from my previous post, since Pitch Perfect I’ve been struggling a little with the rewriting of the novel. Bits of the original version were good but the plot wasn’t satisfactory and so I came up with … Continue reading
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Why quitting NaNoWriMo doesn’t mean you’ll never be a writer
It’s November and everyone who writes or wants to write knows that November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) time. As recent data showed that being an author is the preferred career choice for 60% of the population. I imagine … Continue reading
October’s writing – write, delete, repeat.
Back at the end of September I mapped out my writing plans for October and was feeling pretty positive. You can already see that ‘but’ looming can’t you? The ‘but’ is that the cold I came down with in September … Continue reading
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