Category: Books and Authors
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Tuesday Interview: Jane Travers on Tweet Treats Blog Tour
Jane Travers was one of the first people I met on Twitter and I’ve subsequently had the pleasure of meeting this intelligent, friendly and wry lady in real life. The Tweet Treats project is a brainwave with a difference and the book has just been released. I asked Jane all about it…. (Sincere apologies at…
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The Tuesday Interview: With Catherine Ryan Howard (author of Self-Printed)
Catherine Ryan Howard lives in Cork, Ireland. She has very successfully published a memoir about working in Disney, called Mousetrapped. She has documented the story of her self-printing experience and success in her blog Catherine, Caffinated and just lately released Self-Printed in which she shares the knowledge and expertise she gained from her self-printing experience. …
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Write for the joy of it baby!
We chose it. We want it. We can’t be doing without it. We wake up in the night or early in the morning with ideas spinning. We pace like tigers when kept from it by normal life. We do it. And on days when all our stars are in alignment, when the keys to our…
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Mother writer interviews: Jane Rusbridge
Jane Rusbridge lives near in a tiny village in the South Downs, West Sussex. She has been Associate Lecturer of English at the university in Chichester for more than ten years. Her debut novel, The Devil’s Music, was published by Bloomsbury in 2009 and is currently longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Bloomsbury…
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In love with second hand books
A friend of mine recently sent me a Christmas present of a book by Vladamir Nabakov which I’m currently enjoying reading for the rich prose and the captivating story. But what I loved most about the book was that it was second hand, it’s pages mostly yellowed, the name of a previous owner scrawled in…
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The Soul’s Re-education – who’s writing do you love?
I will never be a literary critic. I say Wow. I say Yes. I feel a resonance inside, a plucked guitar string, light shifting, I find myself holding my breath. I feel a flicker of an idea, consciousness swirling, a pulse of feeling, a glimpse of memory that sets me ready to try to say…..something,…
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