by nikkicopleston | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog
Harvey takes time out Last year was a busy one: several talks with other Silver Crow authors, creative writing workshops with my fellow Stellar Scribes, Sonja Price and Jan Ellis, and appearances at a couple of literary festivals. Talks in bookshops, church halls,...
by nikkicopleston | Oct 1, 2017 | Blog
At the last of this summer’s writing boot camp sessions, Brenda was reading from her new work-in-progress. She’d only just started writing it – a story set in the countryside in the early years of the 20th Century – so as she was reading it...
by nikkicopleston | Apr 29, 2017 | Blog
Where are you when you read? Where are you when you write? I don’t mean, Where are you physically – although a Greek island in the sun or a remote bothy in the Scottish Highlands sounds pretty appealing, depending on your temperament. I mean, Where are you...
by nikkicopleston | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog
Well, if you’ve been selling books for a while, you’ve probably forgotten the thrill of handing over the first copy to a paying customer. However, when I signed a copy of ‘The Shame of Innocence’ yesterday for my friend Melina Robinson, the...
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...