Thanks for your Kind Messages of Condolence.
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Happy Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year to you all.
Thanks to everyone who has visited, supported, and taken the time to read my ramblings and my writing this past year. I appreciate each and every one of you and I wish I could express my gratitude personally. I have been missing in action throughout December due to a family illness and consequent bereavement and I hope you understand the […]
Writing from Memory and Imagination
Writing from memory should be easy, you'd think. After all, we all have memories, and putting them down on paper or onto a computer screen should simply be a case of organising one's thoughts, and getting on with it
Undercover: Crime Shorts
Undercover: Crime Shorts is once again featured - 14th September 2022 - on the global author podcast, The Authors Show, where I chat to my fab host, Linda Thompson, about writing my collection of short stories, and the inspiration for them.
Innocence and Criminal Justice
The Innocence Project is a non-for-profit organisation, based in New York, New York, USA, committed to exonerating individuals who have been wrongly convicted - through the use of DNA testing - and working to reform the Criminal Justice system to prevent future cases of wrongful conviction.
Running out of Luck, Running out of Time…
Meet Marko - not his real name by the way. He lives a double life; one life is lived under the radar as the leader of BRATVA (a Russian Mafia gang), and the other as an Oligarch who has the ear of the Kremlin...but for how long?
The Jazz Singer with a Sting in her Tale.
Closing the safe door quietly and with an expert spin of the dial, the black-clad woman straightened up, slinging the grip with her haul over her shoulder. She stood listening intently before moving towards the office door. Again, she waited, her ears straining, before gently prizing the door open and stepping silently into the corridor of darkened offices; she eased the door closed, calculating she had barely two minutes before the night-watchman made his rounds, trying the doors and checking the building was secure.
Spring is Bursting out in England
Join me on my walk around Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire. Park of the Crown Estate. Windsor Castle is within walking distance. My idea of heaven.
Chatting to Linda Thompson about Undercover: Crime Shorts, Forensics, Inspiration, and more…
The Authors Show is a global podcast network for authors to share their work and experiences and for readers to discover books and authors from around the world in all genres.
Short Stories, Poetry Anthologies, Singing our Spelling and Times Tables, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton…
I love writing short stories. Transporting someone with little time to read a full novel, or who doesn't enjoy full-length books, into another world or reality. Getting them to suspend their disbelief as they dive into a good yarn for an hour or less.
Jane Risdon 
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