Author and former matchmaker agency owner Haley Hill tells how getting a literary agent didn’t help her get published – but how instead she found success self-publishing her book, It’s Got to be Perfect…
Category: Writing books…
Newly published author or experienced author? If you have written a fiction or non-fiction book, we would like to hear about it. And if you are thinking of writing a novel then read on for some valuable tips about how to get published, and how to sell your book…
Author Spot: Rita Wilkinson
Rita Wilkinson tells how she began her book as a little project on her computer and how throughout her lifetime she always wanted to write but until now, never had the confidence …
Author Spot: Katherine Thompson
What happens if you wake up one day and remember nothing about your past life? Katherine Thompson talks about her book chronicling her memory loss – The Day I woke up and how she got published…
Author Spot: Michael Linford
Michael Linford tells how a combined passion for books and music – and wondering which are the 20 best songs you would want to hear were the world to end – inspired him to write his debut novel, Music for the end of the world…
Should parents be worried about teaching their babies to talk from BIRTH…
Author Tracey Blake sounds like the sort of over-suffocating, helicopter-type of parent ‘my child is so brilliant/amazing/cleverer than yours’ that somehow I always got stuck next to at awful school evenings…
Author Spot: Phil Taylor
Author Phil Taylor tells how wanting to write a book he’d have loved to read as an 11-year-old inspired him to pen a children’s novel – and why it took him ten years to complete…
How a blog landed one woman a book deal…
Single mum Jack Monroe’s blog posts about how she fed her family on just £10 a week have turned into a book deal with publishing giant Penguin.
Author Spot: Robin Barratt
Accomplished author Robin Barratt tells how working as a bodyguard gave him the impetus to write his first book – and how as a writer you shouldn’t rely on friends to give their opinions on your work…
Author Spot: Jason Gray
Ex-soldier Jason Gray tells how he has drawn upon over twenty years experience in the army to write his novels – and how he hopes they will highlight difficulties soldiers often face after so many years of service…
Author Spot: Jacquie Parton
Author Jacquie Parton tells how after her own son died, she was inspired to write a book that shows there is life after death…