Linda Huber's Blog, page 56
February 7, 2016
The A B C of writing a book…
Please note, this is not a list of instructions – that needs no A B C. To write a book, ‘all’ you need to do, according to a cartoon doing the rounds on social media, is: Sit. Stay. Write. This … Continue reading 
January 31, 2016
Let’s play book bingo!
…and here’s our bingo card. (Thank you Cleo Bannister for another great blog idea!) In my version, they’re all books I’ve read. We start top left: A book with more than 500 pages: I tend to stick to shorter books, … Continue reading 
January 24, 2016
New book trailer!
If you compare learning to make a book trailer to learning to ride your bike with no stabilisers, I’m at the stage of wobbling along, a parent (in my case, son 2) trotting beside me. For yards I can go … Continue reading 
January 18, 2016
The Paradise Trees – Kindle Daily Deal UK
Just a quick post to say The Paradise Trees is on special offer in the UK today only – just 99p on kindle! Grab it while it’s hot… :-) http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Paradise-...
January 15, 2016
Chosen Child – cover reveal
One of the best things about self-publishing is, you get to choose your own cover image. Not that I’m unhappy about my publisher’s choice for my first two books; in fact, until recently, the cover of The Paradise Trees was … Continue reading 
January 10, 2016
New book! The title is…
The first adult novel I started was The Cold Cold Sea, way back when my children were small. I wrote and wrote but then at some point I got stuck… and that was when I started The Paradise Trees. I … Continue reading 
December 31, 2015
2015 – The best of times and the worst of times… (a mimimalist’s version)
This time tomorrow, 2015 will be a thing of the past and we’ll all be watching the New Year’s Concert from Vienna. It’s been a year of ups and downs… Best moment: Holding The Attic Room for the first time. … Continue reading 
December 21, 2015
Switzerland – we don’t have a Santa at Christmastime here…
I can remember visiting Santa in (I think) Lewis’s Argyll Street in Glasgow – Christmas decorations everywhere, a long queue, and being propelled in and out of the Grotto. My children have never done anything like that. Christmas in Switzerland … Continue reading 
December 13, 2015
New York, New York, Marni Graff, and a giveaway.
I’ve never been to New York, though it’s high on my list of ‘places to go’ – someday. So I was delighted to see that Death Unscripted, Marni Graff’s latest novel, was set in Manhattan. Here’s Marni to tell us … Continue reading 
December 5, 2015
Close Encounters of the Malware Kind, or: How to Kill your Computer…
Tuesday morning started off like any other Tuesday morning here in N.E. Switzerland. By eight o’clock I was at my desk overlooking the woods, sorting through the new emails, deleting the junk ones, saving those that had to be answered. … Continue reading 
