Reading is for fun
Frozen Assets is a new title for my alter ego … Edward Yeoman. Set against a background of British life in the 1970s. It is an uplifting tale of a young man making the most of every opportunity to take a step forward. To make more of himself. To bend life to his advantage. All…
Something a little different from my usual subjects … don’t worry, all the tradition Ted Bun stuff is there, just not as prominent as in some of my other stories. As author Michael Beyer put it This story (The Girl with a Ginger Cat) is among Ted Bun’s best. Witty, charming, funny at all the…
A new Crooke and Loch story escaped into the rainforest …. the first time I have ever published in three formats, the e-book, the paperback and the new baby a hard cover format edition. There are two problems with the hard cover version. One for me, the other is for you. My problem is with…
What is a writer supposed to do with bits of story, backstory and such like left over after publication? Deliberately Left Over Story A few years back I was working on what turned into “The Uncovered Policeman; Made For TV” when I discovered a chunk of the story was going in a different direction to…
D-Day for Ruth Ruth is a young woman, she is on the verge of her divorce from a controlling husband. She sees her divorce as a liberation, her D-Day! The day she regains her freedom. A day worth celebrating. A day for sticking two fingers up at her soon-to-be absolute ex! Her first decision is…
Two new publications for November in the Year of the Great Plague . The first new book to get published is brand new tale about Melody, the NBL. Problems in the Pyrenees Publishing 1st November 2020 Melody is on an early summer holiday on the Mediterranean coast of France, when she gets a call from…
Haunted House is a story made up to meet a string of keywords, characters and a situation during a creative writing class. Start to finish in 20 minutes … Flash fiction! See if you can spot my 5 required elements! I enjoyed writing this little tale, I hope you enjoy the silliness! The Haunted House…
Several people have asked about the setting for many of the Uncovered Policeman stories, L’Abeille Nue. It is entirely fictitious. The location as described in the book “Goodbye Blues.” The stream, the orchard, the buildings and the pool exist only in my imagination now that I have lost the sketch map I made when I…
June 2020 will see me in print in three different places! 1 Dark London Dark London is a two volume anthology of stories drawing on the darker side of the Capital’s streets and the people that fill them. My story that lurks between the covers of Volume 1, hidden between stories by Jess Popplewell and…
If You Must Know: A Novel (Potomac Point Book 1) Jamie Beck A tale of two sisters, one her father’s joy, happy go lucky take each day as it comes, nearly thirty-year-old Erin. The other, her mother’s little girl, sugar and spice and all things nice. Married, a baby on the way, a part time…
