The truth shall set you free. Or destroy your life and ruin you forever. It’s a thin line, really – one that Tina Murray expertly walks again and again in her novel A Chance to Say Yes. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book with so many secrets and twists; it certainly kept me on my toes. It seemed that for every secret revealed there were two more hiding in the wings; each secret bigger than the one before but not as big as the next one yet to come. The...  Read More »

Q: When I write short stories, I often find myself struggling to come up with just the right name for each character. Heston Demming and Poppy Talbot are great names; do you have a special method when naming your characters? A: Thanks, Hilary. I don’t have a method, but I do consider a few things when naming characters. For example, I like names that are easy to read phonetically. In real life, you often see Heston’s last name spelled Deming. I chose to...  Read More »

We all have secrets; that’s just the way it is. Some secrets are so dark and deep we can almost hide them from ourselves. Almost. But no matter how hard we try to ignore and forget, the secrets always have a way of boiling back up to the surface. Especially if the person from whom you are really keeping the secret used to be your best friend and is now one of the world’s most famous movie stars, and has decided to move back to your hometown where you live...  Read More »