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Introducing Joan Livingston and the Isabel Long Mystery Series – Finding The Source

September 12, 2025 By Allison Symes Leave a Comment

Image Credits:- Many thanks to Joan Livingston and Lynsey Adams (Reading Between the Lines Book Vlog) for supplying author and book cover pictures and Sarah Holbrook for supplying a further two author shots. Other images were created in Book Brush using their images or Pixabay photos.

It can be a small world. The same applies to the writing one. I’ve followed Joan Livingston (via her Substack) for some time and recently discovered she is a friend of Val Penny, whom I met at The Writers’ Summer School, Swanwick and have interviewed here. Now it is Joan’s turn to be put under the spotlight.

This interview forms part of Joan’s blog tour for her new book in her Isabel Long series, Finding The Source. The blog tour has been organised by Lynsey Adams from the Reading Between the Lines Book Vlog.

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Tags: author interview, blog tour, book blurb, book promotion, characterisation, crime, fiction, Finding The Source by Joan Livingston, Isabel Long Mystery Series, Joan Livingston, marketing, mystery, Reading Between The Lines Book Vlog, series novels, telling details for characters

Story Inspiring TV and Its Music

October 4, 2024 By Allison Symes Leave a Comment

Image Credits:  Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay images. Videos from YouTube. Screenshot taken by me, Allison Symes. One image directly from Pixabay.

In my recent post about Books, Movies, and Music, which was a joy to write, I focused on the link between classical music and films/stories on which the movies are based. For this post, I thought I’d take a look at those stories which have inspired wonderful TV series, with superb themes bringing them to life musically.

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Tags: Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, crime, Doctor Who, Elizabeth Beresford, Enid Blyton, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Morse, Jane Marple, John Le Carre, Michael Bond, Paddington, reading leading to TV series, Reverend W Awdry, sagas, science fiction, stories and TV, stories inspiring TV and its music, The Famous Five, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Wombles, Thomas The Tank Engine, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, TV encouraging reading

Kindness and Killing in Fiction

April 1, 2022 By Allison Symes 2 Comments

My topic this time for the In Fiction series is a study in contrasts.

Kindness and killing feature heavily in fiction, the latter particularly in the crime and horror genres. Kindness turns up in the classic fairytales and in fantasy and will often be those moments in a story when our hero/heroine has to rely on someone else to help them through a difficult time. It is that break, that help, which enables them to go on and successfully complete their quest etc.

This acts as a reminder to us that no man is an island, we all need help and kindness at times, and that kindness can reinvigorate us. Fiction should reflect that.

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An Open Letter to My Cycle Thief

March 20, 2019 By Gopi Chandroth 8 Comments

Dear cycle thief,

Hope you are enjoying my bike or parts of it that you couldn’t sell. If you’ve sold it in the nether market, the money must have bought you a few pleasures. But, I am straying from the point now, digressing, if you understand the word. That was no aspersion on your education, but just a thought that occurred to me. In your profession, you cannot afford to digress. You cannot head for the bike shed with your chain cutters and suddenly entertain an alternative thought, like “Let me check out the Magnolia tree. Its blossoms are so overwhelmingly beautiful this time of the year”. No. You will be the master of concentration, one-track minded, a Zen of bicycle thievery. [Read more…] about An Open Letter to My Cycle Thief

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