Author: Ali Bacon

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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

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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.

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Small changes, big difference. Editing and loving it! #histfic @linenpressbooks

It’s been quite a few years since I started writing The Absent Heart (and two years since I visited RLS’s former home!) and the vast proportion of the hours I’ve spent with it have been in rewriting, but then as Robert Graves said, ‘There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting’, an … Continue reading Small changes, big difference. Editing and loving it! #histfic @linenpressbooks

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Full orchestra or string quartet? Two novels set in Victorian Scotland #photohistory #historical fiction #highlandclearances #scottishbooks

As soon as Sara Sheridan’s The Secrets of Blythswood Square crossed my radar I pounced on it as it’s a novel which springs from the exact scenario (and some of the characters) I drew on for In the Blink of an Eye. Coincidentally in the same week Sally Magnusson’s Music in the Dark was a … Continue reading Full orchestra or string quartet? Two novels set in Victorian Scotland #photohistory #historical fiction #highlandclearances #scottishbooks