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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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Today I’m delighted to welcome author, Barbara Scott Emmett, to my blog. Barbara has published novels, short stories and a book of poetry. Her work has also appeared in anthologies and magazines. She has been fascinated by French poet Arthur Rimbaud for many years and a play about him (Death Without Tears) was performed at the…
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I have received a review on Amazon for I Stopped Time which I’m not sure I quite deserve: “What I like about her (Jane’s) books is that there is no bad or offensive language – something that you cannot say about a lot of books these days.” This raises an uncomfortable question: should writers allow…
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