Jane Davis's Blog, page 35
June 3, 2014
Medical training, a jet load of baggage and a lively interest in sin: Meet author Carol Cooper
Today, I’m delighted to invite Carol Cooper to my blog. Carol is a doctor, journalist, and author. Her novel One Night at the Jacaranda comes after a string of non-fiction titles on health and parenting, and an award-winning textbook of general practice. … Continue reading →
May 29, 2014
Discovering Your Characters
The process of discovering your characters can be an odd thing. Sometimes it involves writing whole tracts that have no place in the novel that emerges. As so, I experienced a strange sense of nostalgia when, this morning, I stumbled across a … Continue reading →
May 28, 2014
Meet the author: Kathleen Jones takes us on a journey from fact to fiction
Today, I’m delighted to welcome biographer, poet and novelist, Kathleen Jones to my blog. Kathleen was brought up on a remote hill farm in the English Lake District. Though she can’t remember a time when she didn’t write, she started writing … Continue reading →
Meet the author: Kathleen Jones
Today, I’m delighted to welcome biographer, poet and novelist, Kathleen Jones to my blog. Kathleen was brought up on a remote hill farm in the English Lake District. Though she can’t remember a time when she didn’t write, she started writing … Continue reading →
May 27, 2014
Jessica Bell explains: How I Survive Writing in an “Unpopular” Genre as an Indie Author
Today, I’m handing my blog over to indie author, Jessica Bell, whose invaluable guide to self-editing Polish Your Fiction will be released at the end of June. Jessica is a thirty-something Australian-native contemporary fiction author, poet and singer/songwriter/ guitarist, is the … Continue reading →
May 21, 2014
Author Interview: Meet Bobbie Darbyshire
Today, I’m delighted to welcome author, Bobbie Darbyshire to my blog. Bobbie is the author of three novels: Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones, Truth Games, and (due out this November) Oz. She is currently polishing a fourth. Winner of the … Continue reading →
May 19, 2014
Still in Shock, On Nathan Filer’s The Shock of the Fall
Many of you will know that I am interested in cover design. Today, a review I posted on Amazon has invited more comments that anything else I have posted of late, and so I thought I would share it. … Continue reading →
May 15, 2014
A Glimpse Inside my Rejections Folder
Early in my writing career I was given some excellent advice: develop the skin of a rhino. And at no time have I found this advice more valuable than during the tortuous submissions process. It is no accident that literary agents … Continue reading →
May 3, 2014
Love for Sale: Rupert Everett
Last week Dan Holloway asked me about the research I had carried out for my novel, An Unchoreographed Life, which tells the story of a ballerina who turns to prostitution when she becomes a single mother. In truth, it was … Continue reading →
Meet Kevin Cowdall: Paper God or Iron Man?
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Kevin Cowdall to my blog. Kevin was born in 1959 in Liverpool, England; where he still lives and works. He developed an interest in writing at an early age – ‘Like most teenagers, I wrote poetry, … Continue reading →
