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  A FUNERAL FOR AN OWL by JANE DAVIS Out now as an e-book and arriving in paperback 27th November Everything changes for Jim Stevens the day he finds a pair of binoculars and picks them up. Kneeling on the back of his sofa, looking out over the lamplit night from his London council flat,…
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Jane: Today I’m delighted to be interviewing J.F.Penn, the bestselling author of Desecration, as well as the ARKANE series of thrillers. Joanna’s site for writers, TheCreativePenn.com has been voted one of the Top 10 sites for writers three years running, and I would thoroughly recommend connecting with Joanna on twitter @thecreativepenn Welcome, Joanna. Your background was in IT,…
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Cover design is an unappreciated artform and yet it is also an author’s first – and possibly their most important – promotional tool. In his touchingly modest Booker acceptance speach, Julian Barnes went to great lengths to praise his cover designer, Susanne Dean, for turning A Sense of an Ending into ‘a beautiful object.’ Something that people would want to own. That…
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Today, I’m delighted to be interviewing indie author, Joanne Phillips, whose books regularly appear on Amazon’s bestseller lists (Can’t Live Without was an Amazon top 100 bestseller in 2012.) She’s the author of romantic comedies Can’t Live Without and The Family Trap, and the Flora Lively series of mysteries. Before becoming a writer, Joanne had…
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Jane: I’m delighted to be speaking to Linda Gillard. Linda Gillard lives on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands and has been an actress, journalist and teacher. She’s the author of six novels, including STAR GAZING, short-listed in 2009 for both the Romantic Novel of the Year and the Robin Jenkins Literary Award (for…
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I don’t know if today’s storm will go down in history as a worthy rival to the Great Storm of 1987, an event that is at the climax of my novel, These Fragile Things. I hope all you bookish folk in the South of England have survived the experience intact. I thought it timely to…
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I’ve written before about how reviewers are the modern-day patrons of writers, but have  you ever agonized over what to write, wondering if an author will actually read your review and what it might mean to them? Yeterday, I a new review was posted on Amazon.com for my photography-themed historical novel, I Stopped Time. From a photographer!  …
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Jane: Today, I’m interviewing the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2013 (Thriller/Suspense) winner, Jo Chumas. Firstly, Jo, can I offer you a very warm welcome. I know that you’re having a very hectic but exciting time, so thank you so much for interrupting the celebrations for your book launch and agreeing to answer a few questions.  …
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Careful: birthday t-shirt supplied by my sister, Anne Clinton…  

Last week I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by fellow indie author, Evie Woolmore, on the challenges of writing authentic historical fiction. You can read the results here. Do also spare a moment to visit Evie’s page on Celebrating Cover Design!