Book launch in the town that’s been home for the past seven years, or in the London borough that provided…
How to Promote Yourself – Without Being Big-Headed
You write a book, you get it published, you sit back and let the royalty cheques roll in. No? Have…
The Trouble with Book Covers
The trouble with book covers is that they’re what people see first. The identity of your masterpiece (or definitely-on-the-way-to-being-a-masterpiece) will…
Editing is not a glamorous job (but someone has to do it)
I’m in the process of editing my first novel. It’s proving to be a painful process, akin to having teeth…
In Praise of Bad Housekeeping
A local radio interviewer asked me what research I’d done for the Edwardian time frame of my novel, ‘The Tissue…
Help, I’m a Published Writer!
Help! An inner voice says as you stand on the edge, toes inching forward, peering down into a particularly black…
New skills for authors – it’s not just about the writing!
Listening to Silver Crow’s second published author, Brenda Bannister, on BBC Radio Bristol today, made me think how fast our…
A writer’s life can be lonely – but it doesn’t have to be
This week, I caught up at last with To Walk Invisible, the television drama about the Brontës – the three…
From hyphens to Hunting Raven Bookshop – a busy twelve months
Originally posted on Nikki Copleston:
A year ago, I submitted the manuscript of my crime novel ‘The Shame of Innocence’ to…
