I’m very excited to feature, bestselling author Cathy Bramley on the blog today. Reading her books, is like being wrapped up in a blanket on a chilly afternoon, while someone lovely brings you a cup of cocoa … Cathy is the author of Conditional Love, Ivy Lane, a serialised novel told in four parts. (Ivy Lane Winter was…
Read more An interview with the queen of the feel-good read Cathy Bramley
Here is an extract from my forthcoming short novel, a magical ghost story set in Cornwall. The Postcard *** It’s only when I make to close the desk that I see it; a paper triangle peeking out from the metal arm. It’s tightly wedged, but after some wiggling I manage to pry it loose, only in…
Bestselling romantic comedy author Jan Ellis, writes fun and fabulous eBooks for grown-ups, such as An Unexpected Affair and French Kisses. While I’m quite sure I’ve never met a real ‘grown-up’ before … I’ve enjoyed getting to know Jan and her lovely writing as well as her great sense of humour, and I hope you will too. Meet the…
Read more Romantic comedy for grown-ups? An interview with bestselling author Jan Ellis
I have a writing room. It’s a beautiful space, filled with a large dining room table that I distressed myself to a light shabby chic French grey. My chair is a Queen Anne antique that I picked up for a song, and lining my walls are stacks of my favourite books. But I never write here.…
I’m very excited to be taking part in NaNoWrimo this year. After spending the past six months finishing a novel; and years attempting to do that before, the idea of writing a novel in 30 days is, well, thrilling. Seriously. And quite uncharacteristically my second novel Glimpse has an outline, an actual 3000 word long…
Read more NaNoWriMo, outlines, and finally: the title for my first book
I have a new respect for copy editors. I really, truly do. I now understand just how annoying it is when you have to undo over 4000 versions of the ‘yob’s comma’ as termed by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, shoots & leaves, because it serves no purpose whatsoever and thus makes you, a yob. I’ve…
I’ve been dreaming about Paternoster, the coastal village with its wealth of whitewashed fisherman’s cottages and blue shutters on the barren West Coast of South Africa for years. The idea of a remote Cycladic influenced town in the middle of (almost) nowhere sounded idyllic. And this year, I decided come what may, we were going…
This may come as rather a surprise to the lovely readers who have so very kindly followed my blog (much love to you all) but until now, most of the unfinished manuscripts filling my desk draw were all fantasy novels. Sort of in the vein of, but obviously not half as brilliant, as Neil Gaimon or Terry Pratchett. Don’t…
Right. So … editing, okay … been at this for a solid week and I’m only at chapter 7. Sigh. Well, nobody said it would be easy, right? What I am enjoying, beyond fixing the grammar gremlins and all the red and green underlined bits and shouting at MS Word because dammit, sometimes a fragment…
So … yesterday something rather magical happened, fuelled by Nespresso, the remnants of a hangover from the night before, as well as lack of food: I finished The Book! Working title/s: A Greek Vintage / Under a Cretan Sky / My Invincible Summer / An Invincible Summer … I will be having a vote on…
