by nikkicopleston | Apr 14, 2017 | Blog
That famous quotation from L P Hartley’s ‘The Go Between’ is poignant – but also a bit meaningless. I’m not sure it’s true, either: the past can seem strange to us, looking back, but foreign? And did we do things so very...
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...