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About The Author
Terri Nixon is the author of several novels of historical fiction, including family sagas, historical fantasy, and mythic fantasy. She also freelances for Cornerstones Literary Consultancy: carrying out developmental editing, manuscript assessment, and mentoring.
R.D. Nixon is the side of her that writes crime / thrillers, and is allowed to be a bit swearier in her books. (She likes this, but she doesn't go mad with it.) The more eagle-eyed among you might have noticed that Terri begins with neither an R nor a D, but she needed a new pen name, so she pinched the initials of her two sons. Since they (the sons) haven't complained yet she reckons she'll keep them. (The initials and the sons.)
Terri / R.D. is a hybrid author, being traditionally, independently, and self-published. Although she writes under two different names, the themes of both styles cross over; there is crime, action, intrigue and danger in her historical and fantasy work, and there is warmth, friendship, community and hope in her crime novels.
Please use the links in the navigation bar to find out more about her work.
Terri was born in Plymouth. At the age of 9 she moved with her family to Cornwall, to a small village on the edge of Bodmin Moor, where she discovered a love of writing that has stayed with her ever since. She also discovered apple-scrumping, and how to jump out of a hayloft without breaking any bones, but no-one's ever offered to pay her for doing those.
She now lives back in Plymouth, and works in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Business, at the University of Plymouth.
NEWS
Release date and pre-order link for The Watchers of Pencarrack Moor, book 3 in the Pencarrack series. This book will be released on 05 December 2024, in paperback, digital, and audio formats.
Recent Releases.
Terri Nixon: The Mists of Pencarrack Moor. Book 2 in the Pencarrack series: (Piatkus)
R.D. Nixon: Bad Blood. Book 3 in the Clifford-Mackenzie crime series: (Hobeck)
Currently Working On:
Terri Nixon: A new book, provisionally titled The Rise of the North Twenty. We go back to the origins of the all-female Bristol gang we met in The Secrets of Pencarrack Moor, and discover how it began, how it ended... And what came next. Featuring its queen, Jenny Lyons, and exploring her story from time she and her brother Vic were forced onto the streets, as children, to make their own way. This is likely to form the start of a brand new Dartmoor-based WW2 saga.
Also in the pipeline for Terri: a novel which explores a seemingly resolved sub-plot from The Penhaligon Saga, featuring new character Harriet Donithorn. Harriet has a new husband, a new baby, and a new home...but old lies are poised to rip it all from her grasp. Working title: The Hangman's Daughter.
Terri has now re-commenced work with author Shelley Clarke (collaborating as Clarke Nixon) as Shelley continues her stunning story of The Children of Sinai in book three of the series; working title: Daniel.
R.D. Nixon: a brand new police procedural series, set in Devon and introducing DS Kirsty Drake and the Serious Crime Unit at the fictional Mayflower Street station, in Plymouth.
Kirsty is deeply family-orientated, but her family is split down the middle, with her mother and her estranged aunt each taking their matriarch role very seriously. And one side of the family is one of Plymouth's worst-kept criminal secrets...
The first volume has a working title of Devil's Rock; the name is adapted from Dartmoor's popular climbing destination, the Dewerstone (Dewer being an old name for Devil). More information on that can be found here.
R.D. is currently writing a second book in the series, featuring a former TV star who is naive enough to believe a fresh start on Dartmoor will help her forget her criminal past... Working title: A Colder Grave.
A fourth book in the main series of Terri's self-published Lynher Mill Chronicles is in its early stages; Terri will work on this during any hiatus that occurs in her writing life. It's actually the fifth Lynher Mill book, with The Unquiet Dawn forming a standalone prequel to the series. The long-short story which also features a character or two from her other books, along with snippets of the shared history that threads through them all, is available here.
Future Plans: Terri intends to give The Lynher Mill Chronicles a polish and re-edit over the coming months, and re-release them with new artwork. She says of the series: "I wrote these books at the start of my writing career, and was in a fever to release them, as they are truly the books of my heart. The publication - at a very low price - was largely an experiment, and a way of sharing the stories I have loved for so long. However, they have found some very loyal and devoted fans, and I have learned so much more about the publishing process since The Dust of Ancients was released in 2013. I think the books - and their readers - deserve better. I plan to administer some TLC, and to re-launch them in the near future."
The Macnab Principle: novella by R.D. Nixon, originally offered free to subscribers to the Hobeck Books newsletter. Now available on R.D. Nixon's site