Getting published – at last!

Getting published – at last!

“Thanks but no thanks…” Coping with rejection – or not My crime novel, The Shame of Innocence, was pretty much finished at the start of this year, and I approached agents with the usual submission of the first few hundred words and a synopsis....

A first time for everything

“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...

Blogging for beginners

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...