Maurice had been doubtful about taking a coach load to Nice for a holiday. But his wife insisted that all would be well. She obviously reckoned without Maggie's dream pick-up on the steps of the Casino at Monte Carlo. Read all about it, in 'Nicer in Nice' by Pelham McMahon. Grit your teeth and get to the end, if you can!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicer-Nice-Pelham-McMahon-ebook/dp/B00

Maurice had been doubtful about taking a coach load to Nice for a holiday. But his wife insisted that all would be well. She obviously reckoned without Maggie's dream pick-up on the steps of the Casino at Monte Carlo. Read all about it, in 'Nicer in Nice' by Pelham McMahon. Grit your teeth and get to the end, if you can!

Crossroads are usually signposted and helpful. Where are the signposts when it is a personal and emotional journey? Pressure is on, do I leave DCI Teasdale as just 6 books, until such time as a bigger and better offer comes along for him. Family say get him into paperback or offer him for a TV series. My brain says both such options are useless because neither is likely to happen. Then my darling niece Lizzie suggests I give him his own web page, his daily blog. So I am going to try that. As to the next volume, leave it, she says and start a new idea. Completely different. I also like that road. But I cannot stop writing so here goes..... The DCI Teasdle page all to himself.

IS NICER IN NICE TOO TOUGH FOR YOU GENTLEMEN?11/19/2013


Having now put out six of my stories about DCI Teasdale and the old people around his homelife, I am getting comments from men that 'Nicer In Nice' is a bit tough.  Even my publisher prefers The 50 shades!
They don't like the treatment meted out to Maggie in part one nor that endured by Flora in part two. Sorry boys but plenty of us women know all about such behaviour on the part of men. 

So read 'Cargo' or 'The Jazzman Cometh' instead. all on Amazon.co.uk at £1.53

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazzman-Cometh-Pelham-McMahon-ebook/dp/B00GNQ15EK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicer-Nice-Pelham-McMahon-ebook/dp/B00GNQ0H0I

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cargo-Pelham-McMahon-ebook/dp/B00GNQ0XLG
All are also available on Amazon.com at $2.45

Having now put out six of my stories about DCI Teasdale and the old people around his homelife, I am getting comments from men that 'Nicer In Nice' is a bit tough.  Even my publisher prefers The 50 shades!

Just realised if buying my books on Amazon.com you now can pay as dollars and on  Amazon.co.uk as pounds and pence. I will try and set up the links to both asap. Thanks to 

I hope you like Foyle as much as I do, but my storylines are very much in the 21st Century because as a pensioner I am tired of watching the same repeats on TV.
My dream is that one day DCI Maurice Teasdale will become a new series on TV. 
Why not? 
Why my stories. 
Well, I have modelled Teasdale on a gentler image then currently being put in front of us. 
Sorry DCI Banks and all the other so called detective series now on offer, Sorry all you CSI crowds where we spend most of our time looking at test tubes. Agatha did not rely on test tubes. And I do believe that it is still possible to be a clever detective in the 21st Century and to have the brain power to reason out the crime, without a test tube.  See New Tricks, brilliant! 
I know by the time they get to court, test tube evidence is either necessary or useful, but when writing how many descriptions of the 'tubes' can we create? The publisher has lowered all prices even of the original trilogy so you might want to read one. 

Click on pelhammcmahon.co.uk then click on a book cover to read storyline. All linked to Amazon if you wish to buy. 

Ian Hutson described my new work as 'Gritty' I call that a new name for murder, rape and mayhem. Like it! I'm GRITTY!

Keep this up and I will take over from "Murder, She Wrote."  Thank you for the wonderful response to the 3 new stories about murder and mayhem and the hero that is DCI Teasdale. You missed the news? Then click on pelhammcmahon.co.uk after which you click on any book cover for details of the storyline and a link to Amazon. Biggest thank you to all.

My web page pelhammcmahon.co.uk has been updated to give full details of three new stories. Click on any cover picture and it gives you a description of the storyline and if you click on the TO BUY label it takes you directly to the Amazon site. I am overjoyed that the publisher has kept the price down. In my excitement I have begun book 7 in the series. With each story things are getting grittier for poor Teasdale and his wife. Each story can stand alone so don't worry if you want to jump about the sequence. Only in the trilogy was there a definite continuation between the stories. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazzman-Cometh-Pelham-McMahon-ebook/dp/B00GNQ15EK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicer-Nice-Pelham-McMahon-ebook/dp/B00GNQ0H0I
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cargo-Pelham-McMahon-ebook/dp/B00GNQ0XLG

Roger Colby's article is published on Jonathan@bestsellerlabs.com
It is worth a read but I have lost the link to Jonathan Gunson articles so if you fail to reach him do go to his tweet page.
This was my answer to his request for info
hello Jonathan,
I awoke to your e.mail and promptly read dear Roger's article. Thanks I found it strangely comforting. He is right about agents. When working as a playwright I eventually found an agent. By then I realised I was to achieve little by her presence in my life beyond the ability of putting her name to my letter head. It made some superior 'nose in the air' theatre people say in their superior voices, 'Oh, you've got an agent!' as if that was a sign that I was one degree above scum. 
I became my own agent and today use my brother as my advisor and he shields me from unwanted phone calls, reads any mail I am unsure of, and talks over ideas etc.
I am nowadays e.published by VDU Publishing in Glasgow. I have never paid for publication. There I have the amazing use of an editor assigned to my work and who is consistent and helpful in the kindest possible way., I never dream of being a world wide name, but through Twitter and Facebook I have spread my name further than I ever imagined.

• My theory about fame is biblical - a prophet is always without honour in his own country. 
  
• I worked hard at choosing a theme that is particular to myself - Old Age [74 in january]
• The worst challenge for me was being dyslexic - the spelling variety - I still get pulled over the coals about it. It hurts but I have to take it on the chin.
• I promote e.books because they are frequently cheaper
• I promote e.books because when my eyes fail I can instantly enlarge the font
• I promote e.books because it is a consistant weight in my hands and the light on the screen means I can read easily in bed.
• As a former craft teacher I drifted into theatre through costume making and teaching vocal dexterity to youngsters who wanted to act but were vocally handicapped in some way.
• I don't try to be too clever in my story lines.
• I do write about what I know even when in Nicer in NICE I write of a conman who is a rapist.  Somethings are best left unsaid to those you love.
• 13 years in a Sheltered housing complex because of disability taught me a great deal about the truth 'You are in old age what you were in your youth!' Bullying children become bullies in old age, I had learnt to be scared as a child and find I am still scared when confronting bullies. my brother rescued me and took me into his care when he retired. I now live happily with him and write most of the day. It doesn't matter whether it sells, but I do hope that it says something to the few who will read it.
• You can cope if you realise that most people in the world never read, so ordinary silly books like mine are as good as a comic to them. 
• I have no grandiose ideas about the value of what i write - I think I am a disappointment to my editor.

Hope this is of some use to Roger - do encourage him, he always comes across on Twitter as a nice person. 
We only have the gifts time, life and maybe God has given us - writing is one of them - so I use it.
Do let me know how things are for you. 
Pelham