Apologies to everyone who tried to access this blog in the past week. I ran into a technical problem and my Web Master was a little bit busy during the run up to the election! Those of you who have followed this page will know this is the first time I have posted since last […]
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A New Writing Project (after a long silence)
Posted by Jennie Finch on June 13, 2017
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/project-long-silence/
Occupational Hazards of a Crime Writer
You may think that being a writer means I have few, if any, occupational hazards. Certainly I can avoid many of the difficulties and occasional dangers that surround “ordinary” working life. For example, I have a strong measure of control over where I work, when I work and I provide all my own equipment […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on May 2, 2016
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/occupational-hazards/
Smoke and Adders (but mainly adders…)
September sees the publication of “Smoke and Adders”, the fourth book in the Alex Hastings series. Like most of the titles, this is the result of some heavy thinking from the team at Impress and I would like to thank Davi for coming up with it. Adders, I have to say, loomed large in my […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on February 21, 2016
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/smoke-adders-adders/
New Year, New book, New covers.
With the New Year come new plans and new ideas and the team at Impress Books have been working on the Alex Hastings series on my behalf. I’m trying to do my bit, writing the new book (which is as yet untitled). I’ve found myself juggling things a bit as “The Moth Man was, […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on January 11, 2016
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/new-book/
NaNoWriMo almost over? Keep going!
Writing is a lot about persistence – the ability to keep going even without external encouragement. “NaNoWriMo” (or National Novel Writing Month as it is properly called) is a call to arms for all you writing hopefuls out there. Write 50,000 words in November and finish a book! Have a set target, keep count, get […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on November 21, 2015
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/nanowrimo/
Paranoia (or Trouble in Dystopia)
It is easy, even commonplace, to live with a twinge of paranoia nowadays. We live surrounded by cameras with computers in our cars, trackers in our phones and even smart chips in our passports. We are counted out of the country and counted back in again, our phones are besieged by people wanting us to […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on August 26, 2015
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/paranoia-trouble-dystopia/
Return to the Levels
I have wanted to return to the Levels in Somerset for some time. When I began writing the “Alex Hastings” books in 2010 my tutor, Carol Clewlow, told me I needed to find a setting strong enough to be another character in the story and the Levels soon became just that. I left Somerset twenty […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on July 9, 2015
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/return-levels/
Be Here Now – musing on a writer’s eyes.
“Be Here Now” – the slogan a friend wore on his t-shirt way back in the 1980s. It was all a bit mystical and Zen at the time, a call to live in the present and appreciate the world around us but it is just as valid today. Perhaps it is even more so. Then […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on June 16, 2015
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/musing-writers-eyes/