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Alison Bruce: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hometown:: Fordham near Cambridge, England

About Me:: I live with my husband who's a musician - I've loyally added a couple of his songs to this site - and our two really cool children, Lana and Dean.

I have been writing for quite a while, mostly developing a series featuring my detective Gary Goodhew.

My first book, Cambridgeshire Murders was published by Sutton Publishing in October 2005.

Since working with my agent, Broo Doherty, things have really started to come together and this year I will have two books published.

The first is with Constable and Robinson, it's called Cambridge Blue and features my series character Gary Goodhew. I'm thrilled that my detective will at last be getting his big break!

The other is a non-fiction book called Death in the Family which is being published by the History Press. It is the biography of the Billington family of hangmen, who conducted executions between 1884 and 1905. In total they executed 235 people.

I am also a script writer - check out my home made B-Movie SCREAM!... There is a crime in it!

I Am A:: Reader, Writer

Website:: www.myspace.com/cambridgedetective

Books And Authors I Like:: Harlan Coben, Mo Hader, Ed McBain, Simon Kernick, Mark Billingham, Linda Barnes and more.

Movies And TV Shows I Like:: Old black and white thrillers.

Gaslight
To Kill and Mockingbird
Night of the Hunter.

Bogart, Doris Day, Veronica Lake, Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, James Stewart.

Ed Wood. Fried Green Tomatoes, Twin Peaks (the first series), Stand by Me, 24, Life on Mars, Sixth Sense, Paperback Hero, Some Kind of Wonderful, It's a Wonderful Life, Stir of Echoes, Shrek, Enchanted and Die Hard.
... and oddly Neighbours.

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Hi Kathleen, A week's not long, it would be surprising if they had released that quickly. But anyhow you're writing fiction so as long as timings are within the realms of possibility my advice is ... Read More »

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I found a story I loved enough to want to go through the learning curve of discovering how to turn it into a book. The idea is important but it is the way that you tell it that will make it uniquel... Read More »

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Back to the Billingtons!

I hit 200 words today so I'm please with myself! Hope I can do the same tomorrow, I'm not quite at the part where it all rushes from my fingertips but I hope that's just round the corner.

Posted by Alison Bruce on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:35am — No Comments (Add)

The Billingtons

Weh-hey it's all getting exciting! Too busy to add more - how's that for mystery writing?

Posted by Alison Bruce on February 20th, 2008 at 12:55am — No Comments (Add)

Friday

Well it's been an interesting week. I came to the end of a chapter on the Billingtons and realised it is in fact the end of a section and now I'm going into the next part of the book. I've also spent a day and a bit working on synopses for entering the Debut Dagger. I'll finish that today and then get back to the Billingtons. Going out to a murder mystery night tomorrow, concerned that I'm getting a one track mind...

Posted by Alison Bruce on February 8th, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Back to the Billingtons

Yesterday vanished, swallowed up by writing a synopsis and taking some photographs. It's all progress I guess. Today I've drunk tea and eaten chocolate, both signs of a promising word count. I'm writing up the Hudson case still. That needs to be complete by the end of the sfternoon so here goes...

Posted by Alison Bruce on February 5th, 2008 at 10:10pm — No Comments (Add)

1895 and 11 executions

Twiss, Kesteven, Miller, Canning, Tickner, Hudson, Wingrove, Covington, Winstanley, Wright and Morley....

Not quite the same ring as Pugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, but this is no kids' story :

Surely the darkest in 1894 has to be the man who was on holiday with his wife and child. He took them for a walk and was later seen riding a bike with a shovel strapped to the side. A few weeks later he placed an advert in the papers seeking 'a woman of independant means for marriage' ...…

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At 5:06am on May 14th, 2008, Tom Cooke said…: Great B movie. You scream like a star. Tell your hubby I really like the sound track too. It sounds like he has just a touch of rock a billy somewhere in his background. I was really a little surprised to hear that East Texas/Louisiana phrasing in the lyrics.

Hope your projects are going well.
Tom Cooke
San Antonio, Texas

At 2:39am on April 30th, 2008, Julia Buckley said…: Thanks, Alison--good luck to you as well.

At 11:16am on April 22nd, 2008, HELI COP said…: Hope you had a nice day, Thanks for being a friend. enjoy your evening.

At 6:15am on March 28th, 2008, Craig McDonald said…: Night of the Hunter is a favorite, Alison; both the film and the Davis Grubb novel...

At 12:51am on March 28th, 2008, Mari Sloan said…: I laughed, the pacing on it was great and it was wonderful finding someone else having fun creating with their husband. My husband and I are involved in all of our projects as a team, and it bonds us, even when disagree on something. I feel bad for couples who can't work on things together without damaging their relationship. A little friction makes warmth, and sometimes sparks are GOOD! :-) Mari

At 12:35pm on March 23rd, 2008, Mari Sloan said…: I love your Scream video! It was fun to watch, looked like it was fun to make. VERY well done!

At 4:30am on March 12th, 2008, Linton Robinson said…: Thanks for dropping by my page Alison. No songs on my page...I can't sing. Sucks, huh?
But I do a lot of lyrics, everything from country rock to Broadway type stuff. I have two screenplays with major "soundtracks". I'm interested in your project.

At 11:50pm on March 11th, 2008, Linton Robinson said…: Whoa...cool video! Nice to run into another lyricist here, as well.

At 11:25am on February 20th, 2008, L.J. Sellers said…: Thanks, for both comments. I'm certainly tenacious,
and, without luck, that is what it takes in this business.

At 1:16am on February 20th, 2008, L.J. Sellers said…: I've always lived in two worlds at the same time. I believe with all my heart that someday I'll be a successful novelist. Yet I make decisions, career-wise, assuming that I won't and that I'll be fine anyway. It's odd, but it works.

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