For several years Lorna McCann was a private in the British army, driving soldiers and high-profile army personnel. The mum of one, 51, who now works as a hospital personal assistant, has drawn on her experiences of life in the Forces – from witnessing SAS soldiers leaping out of a plane to accidentally shooting a […]
Tag: Sell Your Story – Authors
Our Featured Sell your story authors! Read on to find how they were inspired to write their books, the difficulties getting published and how they overcame them… and find out how you too can be featured in one of our popular Author Spots…
Author Spot: Robin Barratt
Robin Barratt tells how he hopes his new book, Britain’s Toughest Women – chronicling the lives of women bodyguards, bouncers, bodybuilders, boxer, martial artists and MMA fighters in the UK – will be an inspiration to us all. And he also tells how writing something every day has helped him gain success as an author…
How my own family history became a novel…
Novelist Patric Gale – known for his bestsellers set deep in the heart of Cornwall – tells how his latest work, A Place Called Winter, was inspired by his own family history and his great grandfather’s emigration to Canada.
I turned my real-life experience into a book…
Author Anne Zouroudi, who wed a Greek fisherman, tells how she turned her real life Shirley Valentine experience into a book, was taken on by a top literary agent – and went on to have a successful literary career.
Author Spot: Catherine Alliott
A prolific author with 13 bestselling titles, Catherine Alliott has built a reputation as the British queen of chick lit. Yet, before she became so successful she was made redundant from her copyrighting job in advertising. Here, she tells how initially she was upset… and how it turned out to be a blessing in disguise…
Why do the press only want to know about ME, asks author…
Author Anakana Schofield – whose first novel, Malarky – is about to come out in Britain has a ‘grumble’ about the publicity she is getting.
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…
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…