Go down the Yorkshire coast from Middlesbrough to the end of the railway line, turn a couple of corners in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, and you pass the main window of the bookshop Jenna Warren has run for the past eight years. Last time I looked, Brian Groom’s Northerners...
It took me 23 years (and seven rejected novels) to get published from the time I wrote my first novel, aged 17. Since being published almost ten years ago, I’ve learned a lot about the industry. Here’s some advice. I hope you find it useful! Some advice… How authors...
I don’t pretend to begin to get my head around the many online marketing facilities now available, in every conceivable form, to authors nowadays. The possibilities are mind-boggling and so I leave all of that to those very much better qualified than myself! Face to...
A week after I signed my first contract with Penguin for MY HUSBAND’S WIFE seven years ago, I was invited to a meeting with one of Penguin’s social experts. Little did I know on the train up to London, that my life was to change forever. After that day, I started to...