When you need a little perspective in your life, plant yourself in a big landscape. Preferably on top of a mountain. Last week saw a welcome return to the Lake District, which has become our home from home. Day One Matt and I arrive by our chosen modes of transport. (I have an inner ear condition that makes me feel…
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Today I’m delighted to welcome bestselling author, Isabel Wolff, to my blog. Isabel is a former BBC journalist. Her ten novels have been translated into 30 languages and have sold over 5 million copies.  Her early romantic comedies such as ‘The Trials of Tiffany Trott’ and ‘Rescuing Rose’ have given way to stories such as ‘A Vintage Affair’ and…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Fran Clark to my blog. Fran was born and currently lives in West London. Her first novel, Holding Paradise, is published in 2014 by Indigo Dreams Publishing. Fran is studying for a Creative Writing MA at Brunel University. A professional-singer songwriter and vocal coach, she recently released her second album…
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Yesterday’s inaugural London Author Fair offered a hectic day’s schedule of seminars and workshops given by a wealth of seasoned authors, such as the wonderful Adele Parks, and industry professionals offering a blend of technological innovation and sage advice (journalist and commentator Porter Anderson, Blurb founder Eileen Gittins, commisioning editor Holly Bennion, literary agents Andrew Lownie and Piers Blofield, TV…
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You only have two seconds to create an impression. To make people look twice.  Bringing ideas to life is always an interesting experience, but describing those ideas to my cover designer, Andrew Candy, and then seeing his translation of them can result in unexpected outcomes. I had imagined threatening skies for my story of of an ex ballerina’s tumultuous…
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I’m delighted to welcome Jane Lark to my blog. Jane is a writer of authentic, passionate and emotional Historical and New Adult Romances and author of a No.1 bestselling Historical Romance, ‘The Illicit Love of a Courtesan’, which rocketed to No. 22 in the American Kindle chart in February 2014.  She began her first novel…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome author Suzy Turner to my blog. Suzy has worked as a journalist, assistant editor, features editor and magazine editor. Early in 2010, however, she began writing full time and has since completed six books for young adults: The Raven Saga trilogy and The Morgan Sisters series and a chick lit novel,…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome award-winning author Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn to my blog. After a career teaching English in further and higher education, Lindsay, now works as a writer and creative writing tutor. Her second novel The Piano Player’s Son was published in 2013 by Cinnamon Press after winning their novel writing award. Her first novel, Unravelling,…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Rohan Quine to my blog. Rohan’s novel The Imagination Thief was published by EC1 Digital and the Firsty Group in 2013, as an ebook that includes film and audio and photographic content in conjunction with the novel’s text: click here for more information and some nice reviews in The Guardian and…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome author Talli Roland to my blog.     Despite training as a journalist, Talli soon found she preferred making up her own stories, complete with happy endings. Talli’s debut novel The Hating Game was short-listed for Best Romantic Read at the UK’s Festival of Romance, while her second, Watching Willow Watts, was selected…
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