Welcome to my website
A Christmas list for the lover of literary fiction! You can purchase Rain, Steam and Speed; When Glass Breaks; and En Passant online (either paperback or e-book) or order them through your local or high street bookstore (paperback).
In 2021, I published my first novel En Passant. This was followed in 2023 by When Glass Breaks. Rain Steam and Speed came along in 2024. All three are in the epic genre.
In 2022 I published a crime novel in instalments on my website. That novel is now part of a series which I have called “The Helen Investigations.” I am hoping to find a publisher for these novels.
Each of my novels, and the crime series, have their own page giving more information.
Please take time to review the Snippets page. It offers reflections and gives insight into my world of writing.
I welcome feedback from people who have read any of my novels, so please do send me a message via the Contact page.
About me
Writing is something I have always enjoyed, whether first story attempts as a child, or poetry filled with angst as a young adult, or short stories as a student. Novels were not something I attempted until the Covid pandemic, when I produced four and a half of them. I have since completed the fifth and written a sixth, with two more in my head.
In many ways, my fictional narrator, Helen, who is present in all my novels, is an extension of myself, although much of her life is also a product of my creative imagination.
Finding time to write alongside a full-time job can be tricky, especially as I also like to walk the dog, watch movies, listen to progressive rock, play chess, visit family, and spend as much time as I can doing up a house in France. Promoting and maintaining a public presence for the novels I have published, as well as querying agents and submitting to traditional publishers with the ones as yet unpublished, also takes up a huge slice of time.
Having spent my childhood and teenage years in Kent, I left home to go to university in Nottingham. Studies included French and critical theory. After graduating I spent many years living and working in Nottingham before moving down to Devon. It’s now ten years that I have called Okehampton home.
Married, I have two adult children and am now also a besotted grandmother.
Allissa Oldenberg 