Thanks for the add and congratulates on your nominations. Keep typing!
pam ward
WANT SOME GET SOME

Hi Brian,

Congrats on your P&E Readers Award nominations. Recognition is sweet.

Debbi

Can't wait to read Study in Red - I've been looking forward to it since being and editor on MUS and all but never got a chance to read it then - I wish I had - looking forward to getting a copy when I can and reading it - E :)

Thanks, Brian, they are lovely dogs.

Dracula Doesn't Live Here Anymore has a great cover and I think the cover for Murder, Mayhem and Mexico is absolutely brilliant. You must be pleased with them. Good luck!

The dogs are beside themselves having had their photos put up on my Crimespace page. (OK, so they're both lying under my desk snoring...)
Good luck with Dracula Doesn't Live Here Anymore. I'll look out for it. I agree; short fiction provides a welcome change.

Rescue dogs are the best. Our Tilly is 4 and Muffet is coming up to 11. We only rescued Muffet 2 years ago. As for the name being cute, hm. He has a penchant for rounding up deer or sheep and I feel a complete idiot shouting him. Thankfully, he's now beginning to answer to 'Cloth Ears'.

Yes, we Brits must stick together. :o)

I love your Tilly. Very little writing done here over the festive period so my own Tilly (aka the Hound from Hell) has had a rest from hitting the reset button on the pc and spent her time wrecking Christmas tree, decorations, etc. with her partner in crime, Muffet (sadly, too old to have his name changed when we rescused him from local kennels).

Happy New Year!

No problem! We can swop paperbacks when yours is available in the spring! - as per my message.

:))

Looking forward to it already

A
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Fab! How about a review copy of "Glastonbury" for "A Dangerous Man" - I will message you with my address for sending now!

:))

A
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Thanks, Brian - and that sounds a great idea! Shall we swop addresses and books? I can send you "A Dangerous Man" for one of yours - your choice!

Hugs!

A
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Thanks, Brian. Good to meet another writer of dark psychological crime novels! I do hope you have a grand Christmas.

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A
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Like you , I rarely have dogs in my storylines. I've only had one (Alf), as a central character once, in my short story 'The Significance of Cherries' which is currently being considered for an anthology by Notorius Press. I like your brother's way of desribing your work, which I'm sure is all the more realistic due to your background and use of imagination. I do tend to try and make things as relaistic as i can, and often receive some very welcome help from various police forces in the UK when it comes to research and realism, but when it comes to fiction there's no substitute for a good dose of imagination, which is really the soul of a good novel. Keep doing what you do best Sophie, that's the road to success.

yup i sure do love dogs, though i rarely remember to write them in. Authors I've recently read who write great dogs: joe hill, daniel woodrell. As far as background...one of things i write, my brother has termed "minivan noir" - and being a housewife, I suppose that gives me lots of background - everything else I have to get the oldfashioned way - lookin it up or makin it up! :)

haha, Stella sounds just like Tilly, who's only 3, though she's the eldest of our 'pack', and old for her years due to the apalling abuse she suffered.. We also have Dylan the Bedlington terrier who's 2, and little Charlie the Westie/Cairn cross who's not quite 1 year old. Like you I talk to Tilly while I'm writing, though likewise I think she likes everything I write! hehe Up until last year i had 2 dachshnds called, funnily enough Sophie and Candy. Sophie died on teh 29th December last year aged 14, and Candy went earlier in April, from a diabetes infection. She was just 11. It's always great to meet another 'doggie' person. Do you have any background in your writing subjects? I'm a student of forensics and criminology, though I rely on imagination a great deal. Here's wishing you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and hope to hear more from you in the future.

Tilly's darlin' :) Yup, that's my Stella, 14 years old and going strong. She sits here and watches me write every day. I read the tricky passages out loud to her - she's supportive if not very discerning.

Best wishes for the holidays!

Hi, Brian, thanks for the message. It is great to know you too! :-)

Brian, thanks for the invite. --Dave
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Brian,
We lived near Honington for almost 3 years, stationed at the Heath. We have made several great friends in the RAF over the years. Do you perhaps know Davy Jones or Ian Cameron? Were you ever stationed in Germany?
Hubby was retired and called back to service, so we are still in, lol/
Presently my assistants are several grey parrots and a mitred conure. They have many a great conversation while I am writing. I think they will have to be in a story on their own. Off to shovel snow now. Daughter is coming home from university and demanded a white Christmas. She gets her wish. Tomorrow she shovels.
Greeting to you and your family in England from gang.

Brian, thanks for the invite. If the pics above are all your beasties, you are one lucky man to have so many best friends which exhibit so much character.
Copper passed away last year and we miss our beastie terribly. His memory will live on in the "Tails." Am looking forward to getting to know you. And must say am looking forward to the release of A Study in Red.
We used to live in Barningham, a small town north of Bury St. Edmonds. We still go visit. Ta for now.