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Not all routes to third-party publication are conventional, but the speed at which my guest Alice Furse was picked up is certainly unusual. I first came across Alice at last year’s London Author Fair. She had recently self-published her first novel, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Shortly afterwards she was approached by Burning Eye Books,…
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To celebrate the release of Jessica Bell’s latest novel, White Lady, she is giving away an e-copy (mobi, ePub, or PDF) to the first person to correctly guess the one true statement in the three statements below. To clarify, two statements are lies, and one is true: One of the characters in White Lady ……
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Today, I am delighted to welcome Keith Dixon to my blog. Keith says that he began writing as a presumptuous teenager – producing scripts for the TV show ‘The Avengers’ and sending them off full of anticipation and ambition. Undeterred by the lack of response, he started to write short-stories and then full-length books, writing…
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Today I’m delighted to welcome Amanya Maloba to my blog. Amanya is a fashion writer, stylist, and published author. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. Her fashion writing and photography has appeared in numerous print and online publications including the Huffington Post, Refinery29, and CollegeFashionista. Amanya…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome author Katharine Smith to my blog. Katharine lives in sometimes sunny Shropshire with her husband and two children, and she runs a small publishing business working with other independent authors. She says that she always, always wanted to write, yet chose to study philosophy at University. With her interesting but not very practical…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome author Liza Perrat to my blog. Liza grew up in Wollongong, Australia, where she worked as a general nurse and midwife for fifteen years. She has now been living in rural France for over twenty years, where she works part-time as a French-English medical translator, and as a novelist. Since…
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Awesome Indies is the brainchild of Tahlia Newman, who says of the award, ‘My idea is to honour the Indie authors who produce a high quality product and to direct readers towards the Indie Gold that lies hidden amongst the avalanche of available books.’ And it is a challenge to strike gold. Readers are often…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Ali Bacon to my blog. Ali moved to Bristol after graduating from St. Andrews University in the 1970s then worked in libraries of all shapes and sizes (the eagle-eyed might spot a few of them in her fiction) until the writing bug finally bit. Her first novel, A New History of…
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Hi, my name is Bethany Smart and I am a fourteen-year-old from Surrey. I have just finished year 9 and during the year I won a national competition for a book review I wrote. The prize includes my review to be published in the Oxford’s new set of classics. I have always been interested in…
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Earlier this month, I asked readers who were taking one of my books on holiday to send in their photos. Here are just a few. With Franky Merritt at Amadores Beach, Gran Canaria  With Helen Williams in Tuscany With Sarah Marshall at Cigarette Island, Hampton Court Hi Jane,  just back from our cruise.  Thoroughly enjoyed ‘Half…
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