by nikkicopleston | Apr 25, 2020 | Blog
These are strange times, with lockdown in its fifth week amid fears that the unseasonably warm weather will make people complacent about social distancing. This time in 2014, I was in Penzance on holiday. It was my first visit to Cornwall, and I hope it won’t...
by nikkicopleston | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog
I went along to Winchester Writers’ Festival last week – not to attend the talks, but to share a sales table with fellow writers Jude Hayland, Sue Russell and Elspeth Tavaci. Although we all write quite different sorts of material, we got on like a house...
by nikkicopleston | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog
I’ve known Lynne Blackwood since we were at school together, but then there was a big, big gap – from when she moved away from Salisbury in 1968 to her return to England about 35 years later. In between, she’d had three children and travelled the...
by nikkicopleston | Oct 29, 2014 | Publications, Writing
“I’m a writer, that’s what I do. I write. I DON’T give talks, I DON’T go on the radio, I DON’T do interviews!” Think again. If you’re a self-published author, you can’t give up on your book the minute it’s...
by nikkicopleston | Jul 20, 2014 | Blogging, Writing
I started this blog without really knowing what I was doing. Imagine my delight, then, when I saw that Strode College in Street – not far from where I live – was running a 2-day course on WordPress as part of their summer school programme. What an...