R.J. Lynch's Blog, page 2

The fiction I write is about life. And my experience of life says it’s a roller coaster of grief and happiness, tears and laughter, heartbreak and joy. So that’s what I write. You want examples? Watch this. …

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Make readers laugh, make readers cry. You won’t win the Booker like that. It’s worth doing though. Don’t you think? More here. …

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Waste not, want not. This began when a 65-year-old memory was jogged by a post in CJ Carey’s Criminally Good Reads FB group. I posted about it there, and then …

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The ideas for historical fiction have to come from somewhere. I get a lot of mine going through old historical records. Here’s a lovely rags to riches story – and it’s true. …

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I see all kinds of articles about the end of Western democracy, the death of the American dream and the journey to freedom that started in the 1760s finally hitting the buffers. And it’s true that anyone looking at the …

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I write crime fiction as JJ Sullivan. Ted Hughes is a character in my Claire Tanner series. I based him on a good friend, now retired, who had a long career as crime reporter on one of the nationals, though …

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The First Greeners in America is Book 3 in the James Blakiston historical mystery and historical romance series set in north-east England and the American colonies in the 1760s and 1770s. The first two books – A Just and Upright …

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What do we mean by noir when we talk about fiction? The word was first applied to movies, I get that, but now we often hear crime fiction books described as noir. Right now I’m reading Scorched Grace by a …

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I decided to self publish my own books in 2015. Robert Hale Ltd had just bought A Just and Upright Man, Book 1 in my James Blakiston historical series set in the north-east of England in the 1760s. Their …

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A Just and Upright Man was published eight years ago. In its first year it was shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society’s 2015 Indie Prize: although it’s never hit the #1 spot on Amazon for historical mystery or historical romance…

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