Ali Bacon

March 28, 2025March 28, 2025

Meet me in 2025

If you can be at any of these events, please come and say hello! Info /booking on my Meet the Author page. Continue reading Meet me in 2025

March 4, 2025

Letters in fiction: Robert Harris, Gill Hornby and me!

The Absent Heart is very much a novel about letters and how they defined Frances Sitwell’s relationship with Robert Louis Stevenson, but it’s not a novel of letters. I’m actually quite a fan of the epistolary novel and, with all of the R.L.S.’s letters to my heroine at my disposal, I could have gone down … Continue reading Letters in fiction: Robert Harris, Gill Hornby and me!

January 28, 2025

Frances Sitwell: An Elusive Heroine #BeyondTheBook

Beyond the Book is series of articles I began publishing monthly in August 2024 to subscribers. I’m republishing the first issue here today. To receive future issues as they appear and a bonus chapter, sign up here. An elusive heroine I think most writers would agree we don’t usually choose our characters, they choose us! … Continue reading Frances Sitwell: An Elusive Heroine #BeyondTheBook

October 27, 2024October 28, 2024

Not one but two book launches in November! #QuiteWeird @clevedonlitfest #Skeins #Bristol @LinenPressBooks

October and November are turning out to be very busy months, first of all with preparations for the Clevedon Celebration of the Book, and soon after that, the launch of Skeins, a Linen Press short story anthology which is out now. I’ve been posting madly about everything Just Write Bristol are up to at Clevedon, … Continue reading Not one but two book launches in November! #QuiteWeird @clevedonlitfest #Skeins #Bristol @LinenPressBooks

September 10, 2024September 10, 2024

Two similar covers, two very different books. The power (or pestilence) of genre.

There’s nothing guaranteed to get an author worked up as a chat about book covers. We all have quite fixed ideas of how our book should look but sometimes a publisher thinks differently and we bow to their knowledge of the market. They usually do know best! As a reader too, I’m increasingly aware of … Continue reading Two similar covers, two very different books. The power (or pestilence) of genre.