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Mystery inspired by history series

  • One Step Nearer Publication ~ A New Year ~ A New Beginning

    One Step Nearer Publication ~ A New Year ~ A New Beginning

    Hi folks. Just a brief update The manuscript for my new novel is completed, edited, formatted and ready to go. The cover is being designed as I write this blog and so the aim is that it will be released in January 2027. Although this book is the sequel to MISSING Past and Present, both…

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  • Amazing Key words Suggested by AI for MISSING Past and Present ~ Writing a Compelling Alternative Mystery

    Amazing Key words Suggested by AI for MISSING Past and Present ~ Writing a Compelling Alternative Mystery

    Key Words Suggested by Gemini (AI) Continuing on exploring using AI for key words in my last post, here are the words and phrases suggested by Gemini for MISSING Past and Present: The key words for the novel MISSING Past and Present by Diana Jackson center around its dual timelines, emotional depth, and social themes.…

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  • Can AI help a cash strapped author ~ Q -Which key words does AI suggest for MURDER Now and Then?

    I was reading about AI one day and, just as a matter of interest, I clicked on Gemini for the first time (on purpose ~ I’ve done it a few times by accident!) to see what Key words it might come up with for one of my books: For MURDER Now and Then, Gemini writes:…

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  • Half Way Through 2026 ~ Where am I now in my plans, hopes and dreams?

    We have just passed the longest day and now is a time when we experience light for about 19 hours in Scotland, dependent on the weather. Here’s a general catch up in what I’m doing: WIP My current work in progress is complete (HOORAY!), has undergone proof-reading, editing for content, authenticity and copy. It has…

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  • Glasgow Book Club

    A recent very convincing email arrived in my inbox: Julia writes “Hello Diana Jackson, At The Glasgow Book Club, we often find ourselves talking about stories that linger long after the last page, the ones that mix emotion, history, and the unexpected in ways that keep readers thinking. Missing, Past and Present became part of…

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  • Can You Leap Back into your Writing Life?

    Can you leap back? I’m not sure. I’m certainly striding forward in my hopes, dreams and aims for 2023. (see last post) Two weeks ago I searched for the unfinished manuscript for the third in my Mystery Inspired by History Series. (I finished writing it in October 2020, in lockdown, at the time I was…

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  • Personal Writing Hopes, Dreams and Plans for 2023

    Looking Back before Moving Forward Go Wide! ~ Looking at the goals I set out at this time last year and reflecting on what I have achieved. ~ I have gone wide with Murder Now and Then and it is now available on Kobo, Google and Apple ~ in fact so many more sites. Click…

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  • Virtual tour around Canbury Village ~ the second imaginary location for my latest novel

    Canbury village featured a great deal in MISSING Past and Present, both in the ‘Present’ story of Dot, who wandered homeless around the lanes surrounding Canbury village, only two miles walk from Drumford town centre. The walk from the town took Dot over the River Ree, through a spinney, past some allotments where Dot found…

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