I’ve long been a fan of satirical fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and have just reread his last book: “The Shepherd’s Crown” where I spotted a little postscript that I hadn’t noticed before, written by Rob Wilkins, who now manages the Pratchett estate. It describes Sir Terry’s way of […]
The next book I publish, No’ 6 of the ‘Saltbury Chronicles’, is called ‘Carol’ and is one of the sub-series that has Tina Burns as narrator, rather than Hazel Fauld. It’s strange how things turn out. I wrote it over a year ago. In fact although they come […]
There’s something very special about typing the words ‘The End’, or even ‘To be continued’ at the end of a book. Well at least there is if you’re not me. Unfortunately as I can’t seem to write a book in the right order, and usually have more than […]
It seems to be that stage in the writing of ‘Sisters’ when suddenly I find myself actually writing something else entirely and cursing myself. One of the future books in the Saltbury series is going to be called ‘Martine’ It is a prequel to the stories so far […]
There’s a famous quote from ‘Alice in Wonderland’:“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”But I almost never begin writing a book at the beginning. I generally have to get a good way in before I start […]
It’s been a funny sort of a day. There is a particular passage in my next book ‘Sisters’ that I’ve been dreading having to write. I won’t tell you what it’s about, because the whole story turns on it, so it would give too much away. In fact […]
I occasionally get comments that there are not many strong male characters in my Saltbury books. Well the series is the story of two lesbians, Hazel and Tina, and Hazel is herself the child of a lesbian couple. We also first meet them when they are still at […]
Amazon Kindle have just put my new ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ book, ‘Rachel’ on line. It is number four in the series, and yes I know, Book five, ‘Red’ was published before it. Nobody’s perfect 🙂 Our favorite young Goth drummer, Hazel Fauld, and the love of her life, Annie […]
I am not someone who finds computers intuitive. Goodness knows how I ever worked without, them and I am old enough to remember having to. I still have a mechanical typewriter under my desk, and a drawer full of old fashioned Letraset dry transfers for lettering drawings. But […]
A rather strange thing is happening. I actually seem to be writing the right book for once. The next in the series, ‘Rachel’ is away being proof read and the next one after that, ‘Carol’ is already written, so I’m writing the one after that: ‘Sisters’. It is […]
Jo Brodie 