On Friday morning I sat in bed with various empty chocolate wrappers around me and two dozen drafted emails on my laptop screen. After years of work on THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND, I was finally ready to go: book completed, literary agents researched, queries typed, email addresses copied, and files attached. There was nothingContinue reading “Just Press Send”
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Daily Mail First Crime Novel Competition 2017
I’m thrilled to announce I’ve been selected as a runner-up in this year’s Daily Mail First Crime Novel Competition for my psychological thriller THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND! [Cue confetti, champagne, and a whole bakery of cake.] The novel, which is set over a single day, tells the story of a troubled young woman takenContinue reading “Daily Mail First Crime Novel Competition 2017”
Homecoming Queen – My First Shortlisted Story
HOMECOMING QUEEN After six posts dedicated exclusively to writing advice, I was starting to feel like ‘Lucy Goacher’ had no place in ‘Lucy Goacher’s Blog’ – so I’m reclaiming it. I’ll still be posting my usual weekly/monthly advice guides with Scrabble piece headers, but with extra posts a couple of times a week to document my experiences, accomplishments,Continue reading “Homecoming Queen – My First Shortlisted Story”
Lucy Goacher 