by nikkicopleston | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
Boxes of books arrived the other day – four boxes of The Shame of Innocence. I stacked them on the sea chest in the dining room and gave the cat strict instructions not to go anywhere near them. Publication day is just over a week away, and the launch event at...
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 | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog
“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....
by nikkicopleston | Sep 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve been so preoccupied with The Shame of Innocence lately, I haven’t spent any time on this blog. I’ve also been busy preparing a workshop on crime writing, as part of Frome Writers’ Collective’s Frome Word literary festival, running...
by nikkicopleston | Jul 25, 2014 | Books, Reading, Writing
Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow – as the saying goes. There’s a lot of truth in that old proverb. I used to write on my own, no interference, no feedback, no ‘critical friend’ to take me aside and give me a few tips. In hope and expectation,...