Deciding where my central family could live and work within the Tower was relatively easy as there has long been a history of drinking...

I had my setting – next I needed characters to populate the Tower and of course what all authors call a hook. I had this vague idea of...

I am a historian who loves research and nothing gives me greater pleasure than finding facts that I can use in my books. I can spend days...

The raven stopped pecking the eyeball in the severed head and listened to the voice carried on the wind’ So begins Chapter 2 of Tower of...

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I have never been good at writing at home – I am too easily distracted by the sudden desire to clean all the cupboards, hoover all the...