Author Interviews

27 October 2017

How Writing For Pantomime Helped Me To Become An Author By Rosie Blake

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. At university I was cast as Alice in a student pantomime taking off Alice in Wonderland. I ...

27 October 2017

10 Life Lessons I’ve Learned Through Researching My Books By J Merrill Forrest

Author of ‘Flight of the Kingfisher’ and ‘The Waiting Gate’ We might not like everyone we meet. It might be a matter of incompatible chemistry, but it could just be ...

27 October 2017

10 Images From The Way It Was By David Lewis-Hodgson

Sixties photojournalist David Lewis-Hodgson talks about 10 of the photographs from his new book The Way It Was and explains why they are so special to him. The 60s was a fascinating ...

26 October 2017

10 Things I Love About Christmas By Tilly Tennant

When our kids were little, like so many kids they hated waiting for their presents. So we caved in one Christmas eve and told them they could choose a single gift ...

25 October 2017

10 Things I'd Like My Readers To Know About Me By Sue Turton

I grew up in a small Yorkshire village and went to a run-of-the-mill comprehensive but the world opened up when on board ship with my father who was a Captain ...

25 October 2017

The Best Kept Secret To Creating A Positive Relationship

It’s easy to fall into the trap of focusing on what gets on our nerves about our partner. It’s inevitable that we start to take our partner for granted too ...

24 October 2017

10 Things I Learned On My Way To Becoming A Writer By T R Ragan

Passion can find you when you least expect it. I was thirty-three, pregnant, and on leave of absence from work. The minute I finished Jude Deveraux’s A Knight in Shining ...

24 October 2017

10 Things You Never Knew About Witches By Syd Moore

Say witch and most will think of a bad tempered old biddy with malevolent intent. But the bald fact of the matter is that most of those executed for witchcraft ...

24 October 2017

The 10 Least Likely Things To Be Said On Christmas Day

To celebrate the release of her new book, author Tracy Bloom shares the things we would never say on 25th December. No really, I insist that I make Christmas dinner ...

24 October 2017

10 Reasons To Buy A Rare Book This Christmas

There are rare and vintage books covering a variety of interests, including original works on travel, fashion, architecture, gardening, naval history, sports, autobiographies, fiction and so on. The choice is ...

Books

24 October 2017

Evolution Of The Beast By Peternelle Van Arsdale

The two questions I’m asked most often are 1) what inspired you to write The Beast Is an Animal, and 2) why do you write for young adults. I realized ...

24 October 2017

10 Things I'd Like My Readers To Know About Me By Alice Castle

Don’t get me wrong, I’d never break the law in real life, I have sleepless nights about getting a parking ticket and I always take my library books back on ...

24 October 2017

How To Escape The Winter Blues

by Andy Cope Winter looms. Darkness rules. You can expect lots of storms with names. Look around you and you’ll see windswept skylines and bleak people. It brings to mind ...

happiness

24 October 2017

10 Things My Readers Don't Know About Me By Paul Finch

I was invited to have tea with the famous monster-movie maker, Ray Harryhausen, when I was only 13, after sending him a comic I’d written and drawn, called The Further ...

24 October 2017

Time To Let Go? Why Walking Away From Plan A Could Be Your First Step Towards Success

Focus is known as one of the most important behaviours for driving success. This is true in all aspects of life, including your personal and your professional aspirations. And it ...

24 October 2017

The Key Ingredients For Writing a Spine-Tingling Horror Novel

By David Jester, author of Forever After Being a big fan of the horror genre, and having written several horror novels over the last few years, I have a fairly ...

20 October 2017

Amy Miller’s Top 10 Tips On Writing A Wartime Saga

FAMILY: Most families have some amazing stories in their past, which make great inspiration for a saga. In my own family, I have a great aunt who fell pregnant aged ...

20 October 2017

My Inspiration For The Betrayal By Anne Allen

‘The Betrayal’, like the 5th book, ‘Echoes of Time’, is dual-time, with chapters set during WWII and the present day. The events I describe during the Occupation are based on ...

19 October 2017

10 Things I'd Like My Readers To Know About Me By Sarah Denzil

Writing is my first real career – I consider everything that came before I published my first book a job, because my heart wasn’t in it, and I was drifting ...

19 October 2017

Review: Dog, Yogi, Banyan Tree By Dr Rajan Sankaran

With the hustle and bustle of modern life, we often forget the importance of living in the moment. And that’s a problem as forever chasing tomorrow, or reflecting on yesterday, ...

19 October 2017

Q And A With Daisy Styles On Christmas With The Bomb Girls

To celebrate the release of her new book, Christmas with the Bomb Girls, Daisy Styles answered some of our questions. What or who was your inspiration for writing about these ...

19 October 2017

10 Things I Think About When Writing A Novel By Lily Graham

Layering two genres is a balancing act. Every author has their own style, but the books I write are a blend of genres. From romance to mystery and magical realism, ...

19 October 2017

How I Felt After Giving Up Sugar

I became interested in cooking in the 70s when I was first married. We entertained more at home than in restaurants in those days. As I was a sugar addict, ...

19 October 2017

10 Things I'd Like My Readers To Know About Me By Carol Rivers

When I was young I once worked as surgery receptionist to a hot ‘dishy doc’ to-die for! As in, I almost died of embarrassment when I reversed my tatty old ...