The weeks are streaming past, and November is suddenly mere moments away. So, while I’m busying myself with the plot for the murder-mystery novel – which is proving to be a very different creature from plotting my other novels – I thought I’d give you the premise for the story.

It goes as follows:

Following the death of his father, Lord Protector of Trinity Isle, our protagonist reluctantly heads into the English Channel for the funeral, hoping it will be a short (and final) visit to his old island home. Events, however, conspire against him and he soon finds himself 

Last November, I took part in the worldwide authoring phenomenon that is NaNoWriMo – the (inter)National Novel Writing Month. In just 30 days, I battered away at my laptop keyboard to produce the first, 61,707 word draft of Montgomery’s Battle with Atlantis.

Yes, that’s right, the book that isn’t quite finished yet … Shh!

Although the pressure of pushing out a constant stream of two thousand words each day was fairly intense, it was a great experience being part of something global; it felt like we thousands of authors were all writing together, with a common goal to ‘WIN’ … Read More