Paula Williams
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Mystery - Cozy, General Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Short/Flash Fiction Collection
Paula Williams ALLi Author Member Location: United Kingdom Paula Williams is living her dream. She's written all her life - her earliest efforts involved blackmailing her unfortunate younger brothers into appearing in her plays and pageants. But it's only in recent years that she discovered, to her surprise, people with rather better judgement than her brothers actually liked what she wrote and were prepared to pay her for it. Now, she writes every day in a lovely, book-lined study in her home in Somerset, UK, where she lives with her husband. She is a member of the UK Romantic Novelists' Association, the Crime Writers' Association, The Alliance of Independent Authors and the Society of Authors. Her Much Winchmoor Mysteries are currently out of print but will be returning shortly, as will her Neston Parva Mysteries. Both series are based in small Somerset villages which bear an uncanny resemblance to her own - although none of her friends and neighbours have murderous tendencies - as far as she knows! In the meantime, she is working on her "Escape to..." mysteries, a collection of stand alone mysteries that feature some of her favourite locations, including her home county of Somerset, Dorset's Jurassic Coast and the stunning English Lake District. They often feature a murder or two, a dog and cat or two and are always spiked with humour and sprinkled with a touch of romance. Her website is paulawilliamswriter.com. Her facebook author page is www.facebook.com/paula.williams.author and Instagram at paulawilliams_author Paula is, indeed, living her dream. But she worries that one day she's going to wake up and find she still has to bully her brothers into performing 'the play what she wrote'.
Paula Williams' books
Genres: Mystery - Cozy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Lauren Chapman stared down at the lifeless figure slumped across to desk. Too shocked to move until she saw the little brooch lying on the floor. It was her mother’s. But her mother had died three years earlier. So what was it doing at the scene of a violent crime? As Lauren digs deeper, she finds the brooch has links to a group calling themselves The Stags. Started by her mother, it was wound up after her death. Or had it? Who - or what - were The Stags? And why was recently arrived Conor Maguire - who Lauren herself describes as ‘the hottest man to be seen on Stoneford High Street since they took the life size cut out of Benedict Cumberbatch out of the newsagents window’ so interested in them? On the one hand Lauren feels a strong pull of attraction to Conor. On the other, she wonders...
Genres: Short/Flash Fiction Collection
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
This is a short story collection with a difference because it is, as the title says, the confessions of a story teller. Paula Williams was for many years a very successful short story writer before she turned to crime as the author of the Much Winchmoor Murder Mysteries and the Neston Parva Mysteries. She’s written hundreds of stories and sold them all over the world. But the stories in this, her first collection, hold a very special place in her heart because they’ve all been inspired by her family and friends. And sometimes her neighbours - and sometimes the person standing next to her in the supermarket queue. But mostly her family. These heartwarming short stories are accompanied by the stories behind the stories. The anthology includes the first story she had published, Angels on Oil Drums, with its laugh out loud moments, to one that always makes her cry...