The Pen Wrangler

Here's where things start to go wrong: At the start!  I haven't written crime fiction before.  I want to expand my skillset though, ...

I discovered via an acquaintance that there is a crime writing competition being run for crime stories set in Scotland and it is far too te...

This is another story that didn't get me through the first round. It's not a bad story but I'll admit I needed more room to inve...

It's that time of year when pumpkin spice latte is all the rage and people who hate Christmas are getting overly excited about Halloween...

Another story went in at the weekend. It felt good to be back on the wagon after a messy summer. I did submit stories over the holidays. I j...

An embarrassingly quick exit from my last competition. A shame really, because I quite liked the story. It seems that the ones I really like...

Have you ever started a story and realised that you were rewriting something else? I'm sure you've heard that euphemism that there a...