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July 30, 2013
These Fragile Things earns Compulsion Reads Endorsement
Number One Indie Book Endorsement Site Gives Jane Davis’s Latest Novel the Thumbs Up August 2013 – These Fragile Things written by Jane Davis has met the high quality standards set by Compulsion Reads and earned that organization’s esteemed endorsement. … Continue reading →
July 24, 2013
Would you be brave enough NOT to name your characters?
Having just arrived at the end of The Road, I realise I was so wrapped up in the devastating prose that there was something I failed to notice. Despite the occasional frustration that I was not entirely sure which ‘he’ …
July 9, 2013
Why Self-Publishing Feels Right for Me
I probably shouldn’t blog about this, but I feel compelled to. Yesterday I received a rejection letter from a literary agent and, for the first time, I can honestly say that I don’t feel remotely disheartened. It hasn’t thrown me … Continue reading →
July 7, 2013
June 29, 2013
Why I relate to Vivian Maier’s Story
2008: a woman walks the streets of Chicago. She might be anyone. Someone you or I would walk past and not pay the slightest attention to: plainly dressed; elderly. She slips on a patch of ice, falls and hits her … Continue reading →
I Stopped Time
2008: a woman walks the streets of Chicago. She might be anyone. Someone you or I would walk past and not pay the slightest attention to: plainly dressed; elderly. She slips on a patch of ice, falls and hits her … Continue reading →
June 26, 2013
Remember the last time you visited your local bookshop? If not, continue reading
As part of the build-up to Independent Booksellers’ Week (29th June – 6th July), Kate Mosse shared her passion for ‘old-fashioned bookshops’ with readers of the Metro yesterday. She mentioned the particular vulnerability of independent bookshops who are less able to compete … Continue reading →
Support your local bookseller
As part of the build-up to Independent Booksellers’ Week (29th June – 6th July), Kate Mosse shared her passion for ‘old-fashioned bookshops’ with readers of the Metro yesterday. She mentioned the particular vulnerability of independent bookshops who are less able to compete … Continue reading →
June 25, 2013
How YOU can help to shape the career of an author
Patronage: the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. (Or, as Samuel Johnson put it less helpfully: “one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he … Continue reading →
June 19, 2013
Will you give a book a good home?
If you love them, set them free… Tomorrow, two of my novels will be going travelling by Underground. Alone. On the Northern Line. Books on the Underground is the brainchild of avid reader, Hollie. Like a library, but without the late … Continue reading →
