Introducing E.B. James
Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. Earlier this year my first Crime Drama was released. It is so unlike the Meredith Resce period drama romance that my readers have become used to over the last 16 years that I have released it under another name. E.B. James. Yes all three names belong to me in some way or another, so it is still me, but this read is not the usual me at all. The title is ‘Mortal Insight’. It is a contemporary crime conspiracy drama and I’m excited about it. Detective Sergeant Steve Keller has begun to see things. He desperately hopes the visions mean something and not that he’s going crazy. But the visions don’t go away, and when they start meaning something more, Steve finds himself caught in an investigation way...
Shooting Cover Images
Over the years as each new title came out, I was also part of the process of cover design. For the Green Valley series and a number of other titles I actually spoke to young people of my acquaintance who I thought might represent my characters, then organised costume fittings, hairdressers, locations and on occasion babies and animals. It was actually all a huge amount of fun. Then I got the crazy idea that while I had these young people all dressed up in the fashion of a long gone era, I might get a video camera in action as well, and see if we couldn’t get some moving images for promotion. From there was a reasonably small step to deciding to have a try at filming a promo trailer featuring the characters from the book cover. The Cora Villa trailer was...
