#Maybridge Mysteries
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My year
Taking a chance
The year is nearly at an end and I couldn’t let it pass without a little reflection on how different it has been for me. This was the year of the great change, from thirty years of writing romance to becoming a published crime writer.
Murder Among the Roses was a book of the heart. A story that had been sitting, half-formed, in the bottom of my desk for years. It was a story I…
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WIP RE-INTRODUCTION: Stringshatter (formerly known as A City Without Stars)
In the city of Aleister's End, anything can happen--it's a city of magic, where humanity is nonexistent and the extraordinary reigns supreme. As such, strange things happen every day to its residents... including Katsurou Kuroda, one of the city's many good-for-nothing shady characters. But when Katsurou finds himself with the last four years robbed from his memories and strange machinery wired to his chest, things take a turn towards a bizarre world even he never foresaw himself walking into. And, of course, since it's Katsurou, it gets worse--the mysterious organization he once worked for has cursed him to die in thirty days, and left him with a single cryptic instruction: REDEEM YOURSELF OR DIE.
Sure, Katsurou has the help of yet another mysterious organization devoted to opposing his former employers, but it's not that simple. He can't remember what he's supposed to be redeeming himself for... and if he doesn't succeed, his former employers will set off a chain of events leading up to the end of the world.
WIP INFORMATION
Genre: urban fantasy/sci-fi/cyberpunk
Type: Book 1 of 3 in a trilogy
Status: second draft in progress
Expected Word Count: 85-90k
WIP Page: here (also linked in the title above)
WIP Tag: #stsh or #ryodtrilogy
If you’d like to be added to the tag list for this WIP, either let me know on this post or send me an ask.
Taglist (tagging all of the old CWS and Maybridge peeps since this is the same WIP but actually outlined properly) and more info under the cut.
Yes, we are once again attempting Maybridge/How to Break a Deadly Curse/A City Without Stars... except this time the project has an actual good title, as well as an actual detailed outline, AND a slightly less detailed outline for the entire trilogy! Wow!
Everyone’s favourite jerkwad (one Katsurou Kuroda) is back, with some new faces and some old ones. I’ve had renewed enthusiasm for this WIP pop up, and I’m very excited to be working on it now that I have a coherent plan for the entire trilogy. This project will probably take up the rest of my year, and my current goal is to have the second draft of STSH done by the end of 2020.
But, if you’re new to this ANCIENT WIP that has existed on this blog in some form or another since I joined Writeblr... fret not! STSH features a jerkward, not-a-hero protagonist (a trademark of mine... Katsurou is my OG jerk protag), a vaguely dystopian urban fantasy universe where magical folk and humans have lived alongside each other since the beginning of time (no magical masquerade tropes here, the humans have known all along), and a whole lot of lies and the liars who tell them. A fair amount has changed since the previous iteration of this WIP, but a lot has stayed the same. But if you want to find out what’s changed, you’ll have to read on!
This WIP has been, in some way or another, my baby since 2016, when I was in Japan for a student exchange at the babyish age of 16. Now, after four freaking years, I finally feel like I have a coherent plan for it and an actual direction to take it in. Hopefully you’ll all enjoy it as much as I do.
Taglist: @dahladahlabills, @radley-writes, @isanyonetoknow, @eloandrianos
#stsh#myedits#writeblr#writblr#writers on tumblr#novels on tumblr#wip#here we go again lads#it's way better this time i SWEAR#also wow original content?#haven't heard of her in years#not from me anyway
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English Crime Novels for a Winter's Night
Strand Magazine in the United States asked me to write a blog for them on English crime novels for a winter’s night.
Here’s the link –
ENGLISH CRIME STORIES FOR A WINTER NIGHT
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#Agatha Christie#English Crime Novels#Joffe Books#Katy Watson#Lesley Cookman#Lucy Worsley#M W Craven#Maybridge Mysteries#NIcola Upson#Strand Magazine
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Giveaway!
eBook & Paperback Sweepstakes!
(2) Winners of eBook “Gift Baskets” of ALL ebooks
Other Winners of individual ebooks or paperbacks (randomly selected)
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An Evening at The Bookshop
An event…
It’s been in my diary for weeks and if you’re following me on social media, you can’t have missed it.
Last night was Who Dunnit? at legendary bookshop in East Grinstead (people have crossed continents to visit it).
We were celebrating Crime Reading Month and a packed house came to have a glass of wine and hear Angela Dyson (The Love Detective), Derek Farrell (Danny Bird Mysteries) and…
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The reviews are in!
What a week!
My goodness it has been the most exciting week. Having changed direction, writing crime rather than romance, I didn’t know what to expect, but it has been incredible. Number 1 in Noir Crime in the US!
It started with the gorgeous video from Joffe, my publisher. That moment when the rose crumples… goosebumps!
Then it was in the hot releases surrounded by Richard Osman! Oh,…
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#abby finch#Cozy Crime#crime novels#Joffe Books#Katie Fforde#Liz Fielding#Maybridge Mysteries#Murder Among the Roses#reviews
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Release Day!
It’s finally here!
It has been a long journey since I made the decision to write the crime novel, my book of the heart, that had been in my head for many years.
I had to look back at my files to find out exactly when I started and was quite shocked to discover that my first document was opened in June 2021.
After a few distractions – a cataract op and a new hip – and eight-five thousand…
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Do you review?
It’s getting exciting!
The pre-order links are live on Amazon, the book is up on Netgalley and the reviews are starting to come in on Goodreads!
If you’re a reviewer, get in touch and I’ll sort out an ARC for you.
Reviews
Everyone knows that it’s a mistake to read your reviews, but I stumbled across some early ones.
It took nearly a year of my life and this is a new genre for me – I had to know!…
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#99p#Bargain Books#Cozy Crime#Crime Novel#Joffe Books#launch price#Liz Fielding#Maybridge Mysteries#Murder Among the Roses#New release
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My big news...
The Maybridge Mysteries
I’ve had to hang onto this news for months while my new publisher, Joffe Books, put together a title and cover for the first of my Maybridge Mysteries.
It’s set in the ancient fictional Cotswold town of Maybridge, which many of my regular readers will know, and features garden designer and very amateur sleuth, Abby Finch.
Turning to crime..
And it’s not just the actual…
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#Cozy Crime#Crime Novel#Gardening#Joffe Books#Liz Fielding#Maybridge#Maybridge Mysteries#Murder Among the Roses#Mystery#Writing
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Reading series novels...
Where do you begin?
I have noticed, when reading reviews of Murder Under the Mistletoe, that several people said that they wished they’d read Murder Among the Roses first.
One reviewer mentioned that she’d stopped and bought the first book, before reading on.
I can understand that.
Even if I later pick up books out of order in a series – library reads, charity shop buys – I always try to read…
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Save the date!
7th November…
Excitement is building, because that’s the date when Murder Under the Mistletoe, the second Maybridge Murder Mystery, will be hitting the tablets, kindles, phones of everyone who has hit the pre-order button at Amazon at the launch price of 99p/99c. Cheaper than your spiced pumpkin latte!
Netgalley
The book has been on Netgalley for a week or two andthe reviews are already coming…
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Noir at the Bar
Crawley Festival of Words
My latest Maybridge Murder Mystery is with my editor so until I have more news about that, I thought I’d let you know what else I’ve been up — apart from the housework!
This weekend was the Crawley Festival of Words crime weekend.
I was thrilled to be able to hear Elly Griffiths and Barbara Nadel talk about their latest books. I’m really excited about the new “Frozen”…
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#Barbara Nadel#Crawley Festival of Words#Derek Farrell#Elly Griffiths#Murder Among the Roses#Noir at the Bar#The Old Punchbowl#The People&039;s Book Prize
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What's happening in Maybridge?
It’s been a while since my first Maybridge Murder Mystery, Murder Among the Roses was published.
It’s been a roller-coaster ride from the moment it became a Hot New Release alongside Richard Osman, and the 5 star reviews began piling up. But Abby Finch hasn’t been idle.
She’s spent the last few months restoring the Victorian walled-garden at Linton Lodge and it’s now the new headquarters of…
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I am so in love with this cover for the Italian 2-in-1 edition of Flirting With Italian and The Secret Life of Lady Gabriella! #italy #rome #mystery #secrets #maybridge #secretlife #houseshare #fun #romcom #emotionalread #harmonyromance (at East Grinstead) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTRaXI1IRPS/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Get to Know Me Tag Game
I was tagged by @radiowrites! Thanks for the tag owo (can’t believe I just used the owo emote unironically)
what genres do you write?
Generally I stick to things that are supernatural in some way--the Maybridge trilogy is a dark urban fantasy, and the I Will Repay quartet is a supernatural horror with some subgenres thrown in in the individual books (The Bodies We Bury is also a murder mystery, and The Secrets We Share has some 80s/90s teen movie flavour... but more in a ‘Heathers’ way than a ‘Ferris Bueller’ way). I’ve also got some concepts for a high fantasy WIP floating around, and a little bit of Sci-Fi... basically, I do a lot of things, but things without any fantastical elements are not on the list.
what’s on your reading wishlist?
I’ve been meaning to read A Darker Shade of Magic... it’s on my shelf, but I haven’t gotten around to finishing it. I’ve also been planning on picking up some Stephen King classics like Carrie to familiarize myself with the horror genre a bit more now that I’ve found myself writing a horror series and not just a single murder mystery with shades of supernatural fear.
who is your favourite character from your current wip?
In How to Break a Deadly Curse (Maybridge Book One), it’s Katsurou, the protagonist. He is small and angry and very bisexual, and I project onto him a little bit too much. In The Bodies We Bury (I Will Repay Book Four)... it’s a tougher call. I like all the characters, but as far as writing goes... I’d have to say Johnathan McCreary is the most fun to write, just because he’s so nuanced and conflicted. In The Secrets We Share (I Will Repay Book Three), it’s definitely Lenore, because of reasons that are spoilers. Big spoilers. Lenore is dead in TBB, and that’s not a spoiler at all, but in TSS, she’s very much alive and very... spicy.
what writing tropes do you like?
I’m a big fan of “girl with an improbable amount of very large older brothers,” as well as the inverse “boy with an improbably amount of very large older sisters,” “small towns full of feuding families and dark secrets,” “great-grandpa stole from a witch so now we’ve been cursed for the last four generations”...
what is the story behind your wip’s name?
There aren’t really any stories about any of them. I just sort of came up with them. I also really like alliteration. The titles in the Maybridge trilogy are pretty much just descriptive of what happens in the book, and the titles in the I Will Repay quartet are the same, except in a slightly more thematic literary way. The titles for the two series themselves aren’t fancy, either--Maybridge is the name of the city the Maybridge trilogy takes place in, and I Will Repay is the latter half of a Bible verse (Vengeance is mine, I will repay - Romans something) that pretty much perfectly encapsulates the whole series.
are you a pantser or a plotter?
I plot by the seat of my pants. My outlines, when I make them, are always very free-form and... chaotic.
do you post your work somewhere?
I’ve posted tiny snippets on this blog, and a few last and first lines, but other than that, my work isn’t available to read publicly... yet.
do you also read/write fanfic? if yes, for the same genres as what you write?
I read fanfic, but I don’t write it. I’ve never had the guts to play with characters another creator has already established--props to y’all that do. Contrary to what I write, most of what I read is pretty much just contemporary romance shit--like most fanfic is.
what is your favourite dessert? because why not.
Hit me up with rhubarb crisp any day, my guy.
Tagging anyone who wants to do this, as usual--because I’m never comfortable with tagging people in the event that they don’t actually want to be tagged. But, hey, do it if you wanna.
#tag games#about me#i love these ones because i have more hubris than a sixteenth century european monarch and dearly enjoy talking about myself
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