10 Facts about..... Louise Phillips - Talking with Frances di Plino

Frances di Plino is the pseudonym of columnist, editor, non-fiction author and writing tutor, Lorraine Mace, a columnist for Writing Magazine and a deputy editor of Words with JAM. She writes fiction for the women’s magazine market, features and photo-features for monthly glossy magazines and is a writing competition judge for Writers’ Forum. From the other side of the writing fence, she runs the international flash fiction and humour verse competitions at Flash 500, and is a fiction and non-fiction tutor for the Writers Bureau.

Read my interview with the lovely Frances di Plino HERE

Crime Scene - The Boy in the Attic - Crimes against our Children

New Post for www.writing.ie Crime Scene

Writing about crime, fictional or real-life, carries with it a responsibility. A responsibility which is inherent in all good writing, the search to write a truth. Violent crimes are emotive and disturbing, especially when the innocent victim is a young adult, or a child. We ask ourselves why and how this can happen? But the questions multiply again, when the person, or persons, who committed the crime, are little more than children themselves.  To read more click...... HERE

Other related Crime Scene posts for March 2012

Why are we so interested in Crime? HERE

The explosion of Irish Crime Fiction/New Crime Scene Book Club HERE

Getting inside the Killer Head, with Frances de Plino HERE

Mel Sherrat talks about her novel, 'Taunting the Dead' HERE