Microphobia… …. is really the fear of microscopic things, but let’s pretend it’s also fear of the microphone. The second part of these media blogs deals with interviews for broadcast, and the simple mistakes that even a super-celebrity can make…
Yesterday I led a media workshop for the London Chapter of the Romantic Novelists Association. The chapter’s theme for this year is ‘Sisters are doing it for themselves’ and my contribution to the theme was to draw on my years working in the media to talk about how authors can use the media to help…
Hello from London… Most of the terrible things they say about the weather here are true – especially this time of the year… but that doesn’t matter. It’s great to be home. One of the first things I have done since arriving – and one of the best – is to attend the book…
I usually don’t say much about my books until they are finished, but I’m about to make an exeption. Last week my dear friend and fellow writer Jean Fullerton tagged me in the “next big thing” round. That just happened to coincide with me typing ‘the end’, which is always a reason to celebrate. Except…
This morning I received these in the post – copies of the Norwegian edition of my novel “The Farmer Needs A Wife”. It’s such a pretty cover- it made me smile immediately.. But now I’m wondering what the title is …
I was wandering around London’s South Bank the other day, soaking up the atmosphere of my favourite city, when I stumbled across something rather fabulous in the ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall. It’s called aMAZEme – and it’s a maze made of a quarter of a million books – with the design based…
I had a rare treat last week – while back in the UK for a few days, I was taken on a walk through the pages of a book My friend Jean Fullerton writes fabulous books – set in the East End of London. I had read three of them – and the fourth was…
The Dadaists were members of an avant-garde European art movement. The Beat Poets were a US group indulging in substances of a not entirely legal nature. So what have I got in common with them. Cutting up small bits of paper. To explain… I have just made my first e-book. It’s a collection of my…