Maybe they've improved recently? I've not had any problems - except I always get a warning about the colour profile of my covers. I'm allowed to acknowledge and continue, which I do.

Do you use Ingram Spark? I think they're better for paperbacks than D2D.

I understand why they're doing it, but they're making genuine authors pay for the problems caused by those flooding the market with 'AI slop'.

Slow progress I’ve not been making much progress on my latest novel over the last few days. That’s because we’re having a new office fitted. That would be disruptive even if it was all going we…

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Muscari Fantasy Creation

Tulip 'Ollioules'

tulip orange van eijk

Iris blue magic

I'd like to share a little of the garden with you.

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The view from Little Mallow We’ll be off on our travels soon (although not quite as soon as we’d hoped). I’ll be taking Little Mallow with me, in the form of the draft of the fourth book in my cosy mystery s…

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I'd say the 'right' book depends more on the reader's situation and emotional state than the time of year.

Yes. And it would make them a more rounded character.

I agree.

I spent time this week with an older friend who prefers to write in pencil. Today, I've written a flash piece about pencils. It's a funny old world...
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Mixed tulips in red, orange and yellow

'Red Impression' tulips

Pink tulip Lilac Wonder

Yellow edged, deep red tulip 'Abu Hassan'.

Tulip tsunami!

Two striped orange tulips

A single deep red, almost black tulip

A delicate peachy orange tulip

A white tulip

Terrific tulips

Happy hot cross bun day!

Crime literary festival Last Saturday, I was delighted to be one of eight author’s at the Lee-on-the-Solent crime literary festival. It was great fun, and really interesting listening the the other author’s ta…

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Not cake! I’m very pleased to have a story in the current issue of Woman’s Weekly. Just to prove I don’t have a one track mind, this one is all about biscuits – not cake. However&#823…

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Surrounded by criminal masterminds!

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That's like saying that because I write crime I should own a gun.

How would it help?

A cunning plan!

Distractions I have been writing, but perhaps not as I would have done without a garden full of tulips to distract me. As they’re so fleeting, I think I’m justified in going out to admire them &#821…

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Poster for Crime literary festival 28th March The Bookshop, Lee-on-the-Solent

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Wednesday word of the week – younker Younker is a very old term for a youngster. Here’s a picture of me when I was a younker.

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Never mind about the fuel – there could be a shortage of books! Everyone start panic buying now, while you have the chance.

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the person you've lived next door to for 25 years asks if you write books.

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Pre prepared veg is convenience food, surely?

Kindle unlimited books Do you read books via kindle unlimited? If you do, you may be interested in this selection of romances, these cosy reads, or this mixed genre collection. A few of my books are included in those pro…

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It's dry here - but windy.