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Laura Wood – A Single Thread Of Moonlight

...around three balls. I also loved the fact that the story was populated with complex female characters: Cinderella, her step-mother, her step-sisters, the fairy godmother. One of the challenges was...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #13

I often feel like a fraud writing this blog, mainly because the title implies I know what I’m doing, so this month I thought I’d do a round-up of some...

Ask An Industry Expert: Laura Longrigg

...reading in March 2020, somehow.   A story of hope, by the sound of it, which we all need at present. The pandemic is leaving no aspect of life unaffected....

The Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award – Finalists

...with a magic realism premise, set in present-day New York City. CJ has a background in communications and journalism, with two decades of editing, writing, and marketing experience in the...

Richard Gould – Nothing Man

...protagonist, appears at the outset to be delta grade, an insecure male about to undertake a tragi-comic journey in search of love. What was the inspiration behind your book? What...

Helena Dixon – Trouble In Paradise

...in 2010 under my Nell Dixon writing name. It was published by Little Black Dress which was an enormously popular line of books. I was really thrilled when my agent,...

Elaine Roberts: Moving Forwards With History

...bookshop. When I started looking at old maps and trying to find a name of an actual bookshop that was around in the 1910’s I drew a blank and that’s...

Janice Horton Island In The Sun – Hurricane Experience In The Name Of Research!

...weather and mood on the island became a little spooky, as menacingly dark clouds gathered on the horizon. There was an underlying atmosphere of trepidation but there was also anticipation...

Sheila Riley: The Orphan Daughter

...but every household has its secrets… About the Author: Sheila Riley wrote four #1 bestselling novels under the pseudonym Annie Groves and is now writing a new saga trilogy under...

Nicola Pryce – When A Standalone Book Turns Into A Series.

...too. Place is pivotal for providing an authentic background and is often what draws our readers. Get the setting and date right, and our characters realistic, then all we have...

Just One Day – Autumn By Susan Buchanan

...are undervalued and overburdened – and sometimes dads – and the mum guilt is strong! Trying to carve out ‘me time’ is hard for mums, with everything they have to...

Not Just For Christmas