Author Interview: Jackie Griffiths
On her novel, Ox Herding: A Secular Pilgrimage
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Jackie Griffiths to my blog. Jackie has a BSc in Psychology and Computing and an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, and has been writing fiction and non-fiction material for twenty years. In 2003 she founded an online copywriting business providing content for websites, print and digital media, before selling up to…
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Author Interview: Jean Gill
On breaking the rules in a wide variety of genres
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Jean Gill to my blog. Jean is a Welsh writer and photographer living in the south of France with a big white dog, a scruffy black dog, a Nikon D700 and a man. For many years, she taught English in Wales and was the first woman to be a secondary…
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Author Interview: Jane Davis
A Funeral for an Owl
This interview originally appeared on Triskele Books Blog 16th May 2014. Questions were put to Jane by author JJ Marsh. Jane, thanks for joining us at The Triskele Bookclub. Thank you for inviting me. Can we start with the cover? How did you, or your designer, create such a beautiful image? Having worked with…
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Author Interview: Katharine E. Smith
On the launch of her new novel, Looking Past
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Katharine E. Smith back to the blog to celebrate the launch of her new novel, Looking Past. As well as being an author, Katharine runs Heddon Publishing – an independent publishing house – and works as a freelance proofreader, editor and copywriter. She has a degree in Philosophy and a…
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Life can change in a split second. And there will be nothing you can do to stop it. This intense and emotionally-charged portrait of a family deep in crisis will have you reflecting on all that you believe to be true. ‘Davis is a phenomenal writer whose ability to create well rounded characters that are easy…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Chloe Banks to my blog. Chloe is twenty-eight and lives in Devon with her husband and baby son. She says that she started writing earlier than she can remember and was writing ‘novels’ for her sisters by the age of eight. Despite this early promise, she neglected literature for sport…
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I must admit that ‘I Stopped Time’ was not my original title for my story of how Sir James Hastings discovers the mother he never knew through her body of work. However, reading accounts of pioneering photographers, it soon became apparent that it was the phrase that best expressed most photographers’ feelings about what it…
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Asked to provide information about my best-selling self-published book, I realised that I have nothing on my own blog about I Stopped Time. So here I am interviewing myself. Where did you find your inspiration for ‘I Stopped Time’? Reading a biography of Lee Miller, one of my heroines. I knew her photography but, as…
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Author Interview: Pelham McMahon
Teacher, author, playwright
In 2013, I had the great pleasure of hearing John Irving speak at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. It’s hard to believe that so gifted a writer is dyslexic, but Irving claimed that this condition is one of greatest gifts. Knowing that he had to work twice as hard at school as his contemporaries, he developed the…
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Today, I’m handing over the reins to Roz Morris. Roz published nearly a dozen novels and achieved sales of more than four million copies – and nobody saw her name because she was a ghostwriter. She is now proudly self-publishing as herself with two acclaimed literary novels My Memories of a Future Life and Lifeform Three….
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