Tag Archives: Lifers’ Club

Reaching New Readers

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Francis Pryor

As part of the final run-in for The Way, The Truth and The Dead, I’ve done two guest blog posts about crowdfunding (and, yes, “crowdfunding” is now generally preferred to the more correct, if clumsier “crowd-funding”). Both have been aimed … Continue reading →

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Crowdfunding: freedom, frustration or fantasy?

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Francis Pryor

Originally posted on Doug's Archaeology:
Crowdfunding in archaeology is something I am interested in and have blogged about a couple of times (see Tracing Finds: A Case Study in Crowdfunding Archaeology, Are Crowdfunding Platforms Worth it?, Fairy Godmothers Do Exist-…

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Goodbye To All That

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Francis Pryor

Somehow the title of Robert Graves’ 1929 autobiographical masterpiece seems strangely relevant. Does it express regret, or inevitability – or a bit of each? I suspect the latter. And that’s how I feel, too, when it comes to the demise … Continue reading →

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Help! The Second Crime Book Needs a Boost…

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Francis Pryor

It would be tempting to blame Alan Cadbury for not promoting his own adventures, but I knew he wouldn’t lift a finger to help when I began writing the series some three or four years ago. Apart from anything else, … Continue reading →

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A bit more about Alan Cadbury

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Francis Pryor

My books about the exploits of Alan Cadbury are based on a series of informal interviews or discussions between him and me. In the case of The Lifers’ Club nearly all our talks happened several months after the events I … Continue reading →

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Death Comes to the Fens for a Second Time…

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Francis Pryor

Dear reader, if you haven’t guessed from the title of this blog post, I have finished writing the second Alan Cadbury mystery. I’ve learned a great deal about fiction-writing over the past year and this time the process of producing … Continue reading →

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AC2 – an Open Letter

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Francis Pryor

Dear Everyone Kind Enough to Follow this Blog, I think if I were a follower of In The Long Run, I’d probably be very relieved that my email account was not being bombarded with strange stuff about arcane garden plants … Continue reading →

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Oh, the Pains of Love and Life(rs)

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Francis Pryor

This was the title of an email I received the other day from a very old and dear friend who worked on my Fengate project back in the latter 1970s. And we’ve stayed in touch ever since. You’ll be glad … Continue reading →

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Lifers: First the Doorstep, then the Mind?

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Francis Pryor

You’ve got to arrive somewhere if you’re ever to enter people’s lives and the doorstep is as good a place as any. At least that’s what I’ve been telling myself as my Twitter account is increasingly packed with images people … Continue reading →

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Sorry About the Silence

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Francis Pryor

It has been a long time since I sat down at this keyboard and up-dated my blog, but I’m afraid events got the better of me. After all these years, I’ve discovered that I am indeed human and bits of … Continue reading →

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