Pastimes? Hobbies? What are those? These don’t tend to feature in writers’ consciousness; either writing is done in any spare time left after work or at the weekend, or for full-time writers, spare time is when they go and research or grab a book for background reading. The result is that I had to […]
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Ampurias mosaic
I’ve always enjoy writing, but not fiction; essays at school (often fictional), civil service papers and reports, business plans, company PR materials, insurance analyses (so exciting!); corporate documentation, brochures, military reports and fifteen years’ worth of translation and editing.
Words fascinate me, how they’re derived, how they’re used and what they […]
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I’m delighted to welcome Debbie Young back to my writing blog, especially on subjects dear to my heart – Latin and learning languages! Debbie writes funny, feel-good fiction set in the English Cotswolds, where sheβs lived for nearly 30 years. Her latest novel, Murder Your Darlings, the sixth Sophie Sayers Village Mystery, has fun with […]
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Stories are most exciting when they trigger change, or even better, transformation. But change can take many forms. Explore just how different in this special feast …
The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick
The boy – who became a man, The man – who became a king, The king – who became a legend.
Helen’s debut […]
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At the Triskele LitFest
This post was updated in 2021.
Itβs generally accepted that itβs easier to market a series of novels than separate, stand-alone ones.
It’s also more fun to write as you can introduce more entanglements and conflicts across several books. π
But if you already write a novel series you […]
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