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Today’s guest, Jan Edwards, is an award winning author with titles that include Winter Downs (Arnold Bennett Book Prize) and Sussex Tales (Winchester Slim Volume award).She also has a BFA Karl Edward Wagner award. A Sussex native, Jan now lives in Norths Staffs. Her short fiction can be found in crime, horror and fantasy anthologies […] April 4th, 2019 | Tags: blog tour, Crime, Golden Age, Second World War | Category: Authors, Books, Guests, Research | 2 comments Today’s guest is Susan Grossey, the inventor of Constable Sam Plank, one of my favourite law enforcers. “I have been in love with words ever since I realised, at age three, that those squiggles on the page actually meant something,” she says. Susan edited the school newspaper and managed to do lots more reading and […] February 28th, 2019 | Tags: historical, historical research, law enforcers, mystery, underwear | Category: Authors, Books, Characters, Guests, Research, Women warriors | 3 comments I’m delighted to welcome Antoine Vanner, author of the Dawlish Chronicles, for a return visit to the blog. Set in the late Victorian period, the series of naval adventures are linked closely to real historical events, and sometimes personalities, of the period and in most feature a high degree of moral ambiguity and ethical […] December 13th, 2018 | Tags: age of steam, Antoine Vanner, Books, Heroes, historical, naval fiction, Nicholas Dawlish | Category: Authors, Guests, Research, Writing skills | 3 comments My guest today is Antoine Vanner is author of the Dawlish Chronicles, naval fiction set in the 1870s and 1880s. His latest novel, Britannia’s Gamble, was published last month (October 2017). Royal Navy officer Nicholas Dawlish is a fascinating character, very much in the mould of Hornblower, something that attracted me to Antoine’s novels. The […] November 2nd, 2017 | Tags: historical, historical fiction, historical realism, historical research, naval fiction | Category: Authors, Guests, Other people's websites/blogs, Research, Writing skills | 12 comments Thank you so much to readers who completed my recent survey asking them how they found books and interacted with authors. It was a follow up to a similar survey two years ago triggered by pure curiosity combined with a sincere wish to give my readers what they want. Headline results: – Fewer people […] March 27th, 2017 | Tags: Blogging, book price, book trailers, ebook price, Feedback, finding books, newsletter, Reviews, social media, survey | Category: Authors, Genres, Insights, Readers, Research, Useful stuff | 12 comments |
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