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BIO

I believe that you are never too old to become an author.

If Colonel Harland Sanders can start his ‘little chicken enterprise’ at the age of 65, I can sure have a go at book writing! I am in good company, too. Frank McCourt, Octavio Solis and Laura Ingalis Wilder were all debut authors at 60 or older!

It’s funny how life’s twists and turns can open new doors. Without that chronic health condition and early retirement, I may never have had the courage to start writing. Although I had wanted to do it for so long, other things always got in the way, until that point. Now with time on my hands, I could finally sit down in front of my writing and research screens and write.

My debut novel, JASON is the start of my 3rd career.

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26 July 2024Part of the reason for not writing for many weeks was that I was sick, but also, I had come to a stop while trying to think of new ways to kill the remaining victims. After the horrific multi-death event for victims 6, 7 and 8 (+ one wife) I was ‘burnt out’ with murderin’ folks. The book went on its holidays and I started on some other non-writing activities. Now though, I have had a good think, as I want to get this book finished. I need 3 more murders. Remember, the book ending is 100% written, so I am looking for the ‘bit in between’ to complete ‘The Help’. I have them, now… Murder number 9 will involve a fitness complex in the underground level of the Merriman’s London mansion and will centre on the sauna. This latest death will badly affect Audrey as it is her only son. Victims 10 and 11 will perish in a house fire. I have still to decide where the house will be – it has to be somewhere that Jamie can get to of course without raising any suspicion. That will bring to a close the 11 murders James / Jamie agreed to complete, to teach the Merrimens the ultimate and final lesson. [...] Read more...
26 July 2024This bacterial infection is now in its 5th week. I am getting better, slowly but it is slowly. I still have no energy, but at the same time, my 24-hour day consists of lying in bed or sitting in an office chair. I am not doing anything to make me tired so that I can sleep. On the good side, my leg has stopped shedding skin, and the swelling is at long last going down. I have been out a couple of times in the car which was a total treat – anything to escape my office prison! Zero energy always catches up, though, with me sensing that I might collapse if I don’t sit down. I have still lost the 10kgs, though and kept it off even though my appetite returned so that’s also good. The best part? I have at last resumed writing. I did some work on ‘The Help’ and that triggered an idea for another book – ‘The Botanist’s Wife’. I told a little about it in the previous blog to this one and will elaborate a bit more in the near future. Yes…at last, things are looking up. [...] Read more...
26 July 2024As you know, I have been sick (I still am), and as a result, I have not been writing. At all. Recently though, I again started considering making progress with the help. I have to decide how the next victim is killed, after the mega-chapter where three Merriman family men (and one woman) all died in the same gruesome incident! I had one idea, which would have worked but in doing so, I started to think about alternatives, i.e. was there a better or more unusual toxin source? Once I commenced with the research, it dawned on me that … This might be the basis for a…different book! I started scribbling furiously, getting ideas down, researching more toxins, and finding the initial plausible storyline. Then I started doing something that so far in my writing career I had not done – I started to write a proper, sequential storyline. Before I knew it, I had fully described 3 of the 5 murders, started working on the embellishments and rich detail and added the police input and case progression. Over 3,300 words! And so… ‘The Botanist’s Wife’ was born. Another D.I Graham Tonnick novel, btw. should be fun completing this one!! [...] Read more...

The story of

JASON

I started writing JASON 18 months ago, but I had the idea for the book for two years before that.

I wanted a down to earth main character not some ‘superhero’. I’m sure many readers will relate to him. Wronged for much of his early life eventually it all become too much and revenge was in the air, and so the book was born.

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