DAY IN A WRITING LIFE – JEM TUGWELL
My typical day as a writer varies by season and the phase of the book, and how much ‘real life’ issues and events get in the way.
I have two streams of writing activity going on at any one time: One is the ‘current’ book and the other is the ‘next’ book. At the moment, Proximity is my current book and is out on the 6th June. Book two in the series is my ‘next’ one.
Being so close to publication date, most of my time at the moment is focussed on the PR activities for Proximity. This includes writing blog entries like this, longer articles for magazines and…
It’s my own fault…
In setting Proximity in a world where ‘You can’t get away with anything…least of all murder’ it defined both thecrimes that are possible, and also the characters. When solving a crime is as simple as looking up who was at the scene, the task of being a police detective is really very simple. It’s like having a character in a police procedural novel when police procedure is ‘click a button’.
DI Clive Lussac is one of the main protagonists is Proximity. He is a career police detective with no crimes left to solve. In thinking about how he might feel, it seemed clear that he…
Highly Recommended! Proximity hits hard and cold right to the heart of what could be our future, and this knowledge makes this book one of the scariest I have ever read. I don’t care for horror. Just give me a speculative novel shaping a future so realistic I don’t even need to close my eyes to imagine it, and I’m sold. Sold and freaked out. Jem Tugwell’s outstanding description of years to close to ours to my taste left me speechless. Yet, my head was buzzing with questions. How does it work? How can the law bend to allow such control over human beings? Is it worth it? What if by going too…
5* Review. This is a fast-moving storyline. The protagonists, Lussac and Jordan are interesting and Jem Tugwell draws some wonderful pictures of how Jordan, a young rookie, only used to iMe and being tracked is shocked by her more senior partner Lussac’s “olden time” policing ideas. I particularly enjoyed their interactions.
I must admit that I’ve finished the book with a prayer, that I will never see something like iMe introduced in my lifetime. The idea is just too terrifying!
How else am I going to write this review and try to explain what lies ahead for the reader if I don’t quote the…
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