Trapeze has acquired Witness X, an “addictive page-turner” of a sci-fi thriller by S E Moorhead. Sam Eades, editorial director at Trapeze, acquired world rights (all languages)…… Read more “Sci-fi thriller Witness X to Trapeze”

We all have that one book that didn’t quite make it. This is mine. It did, however, get me my agent, Nelle Andrew. Unfortunately, it didn’t sell…… Read more “Fragile Lies”

http://bit.ly/38a5zne click on this link to hear a sample of Madeleine Brolly reading WITNESS X Audible book. A book is like a conversation – it needs two…… Read more “Sound, kidda!”

‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ It’s a question most writers will be asked at some point. If you look around at the world, stories are…… Read more “Where do ideas come from?”

‘Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.’  Søren Kierkegaard Dear AGENT, The above quote sets the scene for my novel FRAGILE LIES…… Read more “Query letter”

  Writing, or as Juvenal the Roman poet put it, ‘the incurable writing disease’, should come with a health warning. In fact, judging by the many names…… Read more “The Unbearable Lightness of Writing”

It was during an interesting discussion recently between Ian Rankin and Luca Veste at a Waterstones’ event that Rankin raised what he described as the ‘elephant in…… Read more “The Crime Writer’s Elephant in the Room”

Finding an agent, I suspect, is not dissimilar from finding the love of your life – there’s so many possibilities out there, but only one is right…… Read more “How I found an Agent”

Someone asked me not long after the birth of my first son would I ever have another baby. My expression must have been one of horrified exhaustion…… Read more “To Plan or Not to Plan…”