As the old adage goes, there’s a book in everyone. But creative inactivity – otherwise known as procrastination, or writers’ block – stops many an inspiring writer getting beyond the first paragraph. Even famous authors admit there are times when they’d rather...
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...
“Writing is a business, and a business needs to be promoted, or it will fail.” Your finished manuscript is in your hands! How good does that feel? All those endless hours of solitude writing your novel, and now it is ready to launch to the world. It may be your first...
