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News: UK’s National Self-Publishing Awards 2014

“Self-Publishing Awards” did you say? YES, I did. Organised by Writing Magazine (The UK’s best-selling monthly writing magazine) and supported by the David St John Thomas Charitable Trust, the National Self-Publishing Awards is now open for submissions. It is, perhaps, the only award for self-published authors here in the UK, and with a first prize of £750 […]

Why I’ve Decided On A Change …

For those of you that have bought the eBook or paperback copy of The Caseworker’s Memoirs, then I offer my most heartfelt thanks. You have the first edition, of what was only meant to be a side project of sorts, but later turned into a feature length novella. But, as happy as I’ve been with the […]

Manslaughter and Other Tears by Dianne Gray – Book review

My first venture in reading short story collections didn’t go as well as I had hoped. I mean, I’ve read short stories before, don’t get me wrong, but I had up until that point, never read an anthology of them. But then, about a year ago, I discovered an extremely talented lady indeed. Dianne Gray. […]

News: Win A Bloomsbury Editor Critique of your opening chapters

FeedARead.com are running a competition, which if you win, would mean that you will get the chance to have your opening chapters critiqued by an editor from Bloomsbury. You’ll remember that Bloomsbury are responsible for making JK Rowling a huge success! This is the perfect chance to hear exactly what a real publisher thinks of […]

New Interview and Review for The Caseworker’s Memoirs

Have you always wondered what my favourite dessert is? What about my favourite music? TV Programme? Well the absolutely fantastic Sandy over at The Reading Cafe agreed to review The Caseworker’s Memoirs for me, and he also agreed to do an interview. I was rather nervous waiting to see what they thought … and thankfully, they […]

Author Interview: Zachary Bonelli

This interview with Zachary Bonelli marks the first time I’ve interviewed a talented author, who writes book episodes, and when I read his kickstarter campaign about his new project, I couldn’t help but tirade him with questions about his ambitions and concepts. I’ve always been intrigued about Book Serials, as they can offer so much to […]

News: Publishers Accepting Manuscripts

For a while now, I’ve been meaning to post some news posts to help my wonderful writer readers – did that make sense? Confused? Lol. As a blogger who reads multiple writing magazines, as well as trawling through publishers, agents, competitions websites, i feel it was about time I started ‘passing on’ valuable news information […]

Shadows of the Realm by Dionne Lister – Book Review

Ever since I came across her blog, I’ve been wanting to read Dionne Lister’s epic fantasy novel, Shadows of the Realm for quite a few reasons. I love fantasy, I love Young Adult, and I love YA Fantasy books that are part of a series, and with this being Book 1 in the Circle of […]

Simple isn’t always better, right?

I can’t remember who said the words ‘If there is a more simple way of saying something, use that’ and ‘why overuse a verb, when ‘said’ is just as sufficient’ but when I see people following these words of advice, it can really annoy me. Mind you, I do understand what they are trying to […]

Author Interview: Fiona Faith Ross

When Fiona Faith Ross got in touch about the possibility of her appearing as a guest on my blog I almost snatched her hand off! Her debut Science Fiction novel, Far Out, sounded so intriguing and original I simply had to find out more. Mixing family connections with a dystopian feel, Far Out has been […]