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 | Jun 10, 2018 | Blog
Welcome back! I haven’t blogged for ages, putting off doing anything that took me away from The Great Rewrite of The Price of Silence. Not sure anyone noticed, but we blog to stay visible, and if we don’t blog, we simply disappear. I haven’t been...
by nikkicopleston | May 19, 2017 | Blog
How do you get those words out of your head and onto the page or screen? Do you write a swift first draft and then go back over it, tidying it up and editing it as you go? Or do you worry away at your first chapter until it’s absolutely perfect, before carrying...
by nikkicopleston | Nov 19, 2016 | Blog
The Shame of Innocence was launched last night, at Black Swan Arts in Frome. Not only did my crime novel take off but also Silver Crow, the manuscript appraisal service offered by Frome Writers’ Collective. The artwork round the walls of this lovely gallery...
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...