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A wild imagination + a shy disposition = a writer: I’m interviewed

When a message pops into your inbox and you think: I know that name. Didn’t I meet him years ago when I was speaking at a self-publishing conference? I did. And he was still writing and publishing, and building a body of work. His name is Harrison Hickman. He recently started a blog and asked… Continue reading A wild imagination + a shy disposition = a writer: I’m interviewed

Diary of an audiobook: lessons learned in the making of Ever Rest

Last month I released the audiobook version of Ever Rest, my third novel. All creative collaborations bring surprises. There are things we’re glad we did and things we’re glad we didn’t do. Here are the lessons learned. Meet my narrator My narrator was Sandy Spangler, who narrated my other two novels. Sandy is a longtime… Continue reading Diary of an audiobook: lessons learned in the making of Ever Rest

Turn right at the rainbow

Turn right at the rainbow; a new Not Quite Lost; Ever Rest out in audiobook; a little horse. All in my newsletter https://mailchi.mp/791eeb2d2761/turn-...

New release: Ever Rest in audiobook!

Very quickly… The audiobook of Ever Rest is available! Immense thanks to my narrator Sandy Spangler, who voiced my text with such care and sensitivity, and to Talitha and Jack whose generous sponsorship made this production possible. I’m incredibly lucky to have you all. The link will take you to a range of audio stores […]

Nothing new under the sun? Why originality is always possible

Here’s something to think about. Around 97% of the time you ever spend with your parents will be before you are 18 years old. Maybe you’ve already heard this statistic, and apparently there’s more than one variation. But I heard it just this week. Dave heard it first, told me.   We boggled. Then, after […]

An uneasy idyll, a sooty fish...

An uneasy idyll, a sooty fish, yikes this was really a person, the Not So stories, Ever Rest audiobook coming v soon, new Not Quite Lost in progress, a little horse. All in my newsletter https://mailchi.mp/8778ead3f05a/yikes...

In search of enhanced weirdness – novelist Kate Brandt @kbrandtwriter

Kate Brandt likes her work to pose the biggest, deepest questions. She’s a shortform writer (essays, travel writing and short stories) but when she embarked on a novel she knew she’d found her instrument. It allowed her, she says, the luxury of ‘creating a world without having to fit what I have to say into […]

Once more with feeling – some notes about description

What’s description for? I’ve been working with an author and one of her issues was her use of description. Is the purpose of description to show the reader what something looks like? The setting, for instance? Yes, partly. But there’s a lot more it can do. My author wrote detailed paragraphs about a cafe the […]

Your first pages – 5 manuscripts critiqued at @Litopia by literary agent @AgentPete @AJ_Dickenson and me!

I’ve just guested again at Litopia, the online writers’ colony and community. Each week they have a YouTube show, Pop-Up Submissions, where five manuscripts are read and critiqued live on air by literary agent Peter Cox @agentpete and a guest, or sometimes two. This time the other guest was Andy Dickenson @AJ_Dickenson, ITV reporter and […]

A great unknown

A great unknown, strange searcher of the unexplored world, audiobook of Ever Rest nearly finished, a little horse. All in my newsletter https://mailchi.mp/2c9113000f23/a-gre...?