I recently picked up some neat compliments about my “battle” scenes and was asked whether I’d ever seen action personally. The answer was a quick “no”, though I do spend a lot of time reading first-hand accounts of frontline experiences. And then I remembered that there had been one occasion when I came pretty close to it, and in strange … [Read more...] about A Serious Business
Author Articles by David Ebsworth
David Ebsworth tells stories from history that he wishes somebody else had already written but which seem to have been overlooked!
Travel as a Writer’s Essential Research Tool
Travel may broaden the mind - but it’s also essential as part of a writer’s research. I've always had this writing rule. I try never to write about any of my major settings unless I've actually been there. But Covid made this impossible while I was working on A Betrayal of Heroes. So yes, normally we'd have found some way, Ann and myself, of … [Read more...] about Travel as a Writer’s Essential Research Tool
The Lisbon Labyrinth
A Jack Telford short read (novella) written and published while working on Until the Curtain Falls. Lisbon, 1974. Journalist Jack Telford must hunt down a killer, solve a deadly riddle, renew his acquaintance with an old flame, and survive Portugal’s revolution in this taut thriller with a life-and-death finale, which Jack may survive, but only … [Read more...] about The Lisbon Labyrinth