Bestseller Toby Neal has just launched her sixth Lei Crime novel. I asked her how she has changed as an author since she launched the first novel, Blood Orchids, in 2011. I know my characters so well now that dialogue really flows—banter between Lei and her partner, Pono, interdepartmental meetings with Captain Omura, therapeutic phone […]
Whenever I watch TV shows like Downton Abbey, or movies like The Remains of the Day, stories that centre around servants in a thankfully extinct era, I am always struck by the attitudes of the servant class — the way that they reinforce their own subjugation, partly because it allows them to abuse those lower […]
Image courtesy Mary Okeke Reviews. This week, two very different authors answer my unscientific survey of best sellers. Gary Henry is author of the urban fantasy novel American Goddesses and a collection of short stories, What Happened to Jory and Other Dark Departures. Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar is author of a number of literary novels that explore […]
The master of the thriller, Frederick Lee Brooke, stepped boldly into a new genre with his fourth novel, Saving Raine. Written Words joins the blog tour with Excerpt 2 — but first, what’s this book about? It’s 2021, and personal drones are a fixture of daily life, but due to constant upheavals food is scarce. Rival […]
Creative Commons image courtesy http://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/ This week, I asked two very different writers to tell us what they look for in the books they read. Kathleen Valentine writes a mixture of horror, humour and historical novels, novellas and stories, including The Old Mermaid’s Tale and the award-winning Depraved Heart, which could be described as paranormal romantic […]
Image by MiloDarkAngel, DeviantArt.Used under Creative Commons licence. One kiss from you, I’m on fire Heat across my face Spreads through my body at once. I love you, Roxanne.
For Valentines Day, Written Words presents an excerpt from the opening of Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar’s award-winning Love Comes Later. This novel won Best Indie Book, Romance, 2013; was a Finalist in the Romance Festival New Talent Award in 2012 Best Novel; and a Finalist in the 2013 eFestival of Words. They returned from the […]