I’m not sure I ever set out to develop what is now called an author platform. I started to blog partly for fun and also because of an instinct that in the increasingly digital world (this was back in 2007) it would be good to have an online presence. As an unpublished author it was … Continue reading Author platform – who needs it?
Have I lost my mind? I can’t help feeling that a writer talking about sex is a bit like an actor working with children and animals – the writer is unlikely to come off best! But having read Catherine Czerkawska’s post over at Authors Electric I realised that although we can all think of examples … Continue reading Going out with a bang: do’s and dont’s of writing about sex
With my publisher Thornberry signing new authors every week, I’m delighted that one of them is my writing-friend Nina Milton with her children’s novel Tough Luck. Nina writes for children and adults and since visiting here around a year ago has also found a publisher for her Sabby Dare novels. Great year, Nina! Do tell … Continue reading Nina Milton and her new children’s novel
A few month’s back my comments about Gillian Hamer’s The Charter caused a bit of a furore and now Gill is back with another offering which is already on my TBR pile. It sounds alike a fascinating story and here’s Gill to make her case for breaking the genre ‘rules’. What’s that saying … something about once … Continue reading A second stab at cross-genre for Gillian Hamer
Knowing this Scottish historical novel by Margaret Skea had battled through the scrutiny of Authonomy authors and the Alan Titchmarsh People’s Novelist Competition, I was really keen to read it, but at first I was uncertain. The writing was polished and clearly backed up by detailed research but could I be gripped by this tale … Continue reading Turn of the Tide: Scottish history comes to life
Ali Bacon, Author 