Jessica Bell is an Australian novelist, poet, and singer/songwriter/guitarist who lives in Athens, Greece. In fact, the homepage of her website asks the question, ‘Which me would you like to meet?’ In addition to her novels, her poetry collections (including Fabric, which was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards in 2012), and her bestselling pocket…
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The January VAT hike for digital products has been tough. For writers, there was a stark choice: either take a 17% hit on income or pass the increase onto readers. In search of a way to redress the balance, I didn’t need to go any further than the aisles of my local supermarket – 3…
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  Today, I’d like to welcome Peter Best to my blog. Peter was born in North Shields in the North East of England at the beginning of the sixties. Although the son of a shipyard worker, he was brought up in a mining community until the age of eight when, for some reason or another,…
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Harriet Steel is married with two grown-up daughters. She spent her childhood in Wiltshire and went to school in the New Forest. After leaving school, she took ‘A’ Levels at Queen’s College in London, read Law at Cambridge University and qualified as a solicitor; subsequently, she worked in private practice. A long-standing interest in writing…
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Fran Pickering is a London-based murder mystery writer. She was born at the foot of Alexandra Palace (or Ally Pally as the locals call it), famous as the place from which the BBC made the world’s first television broadcast in 1936, but she grew up in South London and went to school in Catford. When…
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I have never been very good at keeping secrets, but I have just about managed to keep this one under wraps. I am very excited to announce that my novel An Unchoreographed Life has been selected for inclusion in a fantastic new collaborative project. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be introducing you to the six…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Bobbie Darbyshire back to my blog, shortly after the release of her third novel, Oz. I interviewed novelist Bobbie Darbyshire on this blog in May 2014 about her writing and reading habits and her tips for aspiring writers. The tip I liked best was, ‘Write fearlessly; banish the worried ghost of…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Jeffrey Von Glahn to my blog. Even as a small child, Jeffrey says that he was fascinated with watching people and trying to figure out why they acted in the ways they did. He was quite shocked to discover that no one around him, adult or child, seem to share…
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In December 2013, I took the decision to cut back on paid work and throw everything that I had at writing. This meant taking a long hard look at my finances and (1) making a commitment to living within a very tight budget, with no more than £50 spending money per month. In terms of…
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In November 2012, I decided I owed it to myself to investigate something I had been told no self-respecting writer should consider. I attended the Writers’ & Artists’ Self Publishing in a Digital Age conference. It was a revelation! There I discovered that, far from being amateurish, self-published authors are a diverse group – authors…
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