I'm delighted to be joined by author Alice Fitzpatrick today. Alice lives in Canada but would love to live in Wales and her book is set on an island off the Welsh coast. A Dark Death was published by Stonehouse Publishing in June this year. Over to Alice to tell us all about it. Tell me THREE things about your latest book…

It started with After Party. Not an after party, but “The After Party,” as in the Apple TV show that turned heads in 2022. Bestselling thriller novelists Joe Finder and Gregg Hurwitz had watched it…

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After attending a convention in order to connect with readers, one author examines what went well and what she’ll do differently next time.

A couple of years ago, I quit my job as a tech journalist and moved to the desert to open a bookstore. My reasons were mostly to do with burnout: The dread of waking up every morning wondering what…

So, you’re in Buckingham Palace. The official London residence of the sovereign, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territo…

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In today’s Tell Me, Alice Fitzpatrick introduces me to the concept of grieving non-events, also called non-finite grief. Mourning a Life that Never Was

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