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By Julia, on February 25th, 2013
Photo by Darren Cool for Connors Brighton
Last week I ran a three-hour MA class on plotting at City University. Apart from being one of the scariest things I have ever said yes to (and I admit this as a constant yes-person), planning the session coincided with a small sea-change in my working . . . → Read More
By Julia, on August 7th, 2012

Scene of the Every Vow You Breakmass market paperback launch party
Every Vow You Break is now available in mass market paperback. Up until now it has only been published as a trade paperback.
Trade paperback is the larger format, shorter run, more expensive paperback – the type that is difficult to fit into . . . → Read More
By Julia, on May 11th, 2012

I’m just lifting my head from the final stages of editing the first draft of novel #3 to tell you this:
My author’s copies of Verbroken Belofte, the Dutch translation of Every Vow You Break arrived today. Aren’t they chillingly lovely? They’re published by the very classy Bezige Bij. I love all my covers, . . . → Read More
By Julia, on April 24th, 2012

Here I am, reading the prologue, giving it my best, gothic, intonation. Probably hamming it just a little tiny bit…
(As a nod to crime fiction convention, it contains my first ever . . . → Read More
By Julia, on April 7th, 2012
Jamie Harrison interviewing me at Crawley Wordfest. I might look a bit miffed, but that's my thinking face, honest.
I have had an extremely busy week with my Every Vow You Break launch party on Tuesday and the Cuckoo One Town One Book event as the finale of Crawley Wordfest.
‘But surely,’ I hear . . . → Read More
By Julia, on March 21st, 2012
 I’m very excited about the Every Vow You Break launch, which is happening on Tuesday 3rd April at 6.30pm at Goldsboro Books, 23-25, Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. If you’d like to come along and raise a glass to my new book, please let my publicist Sam Eades know: samantha.eades@headline.co.uk, so she can . . . → Read More
By Julia, on February 28th, 2012
On Friday I went with Sam Eades, my lovely publicist at Headline, to Clays printers in Bungay, to see Every Vow You Break roll off the presses. I had been told by David Headley at Goldsboro Books and S J Watson that it was an astounding day out (‘like Charlie . . . → Read More
By Julia, on February 9th, 2012
 I’ve just had the most enormous fun making a trailer for Every Vow You Break. For me, writing is like running a movie in my head. So, it seems, is making a movie.
Last week, on a bitingly cold but brightly sunny day, I wrapped up so warm that I could barely move and . . . → Read More
By Julia, on January 11th, 2012

Some of the bare bones of novel #3
After a busy Christmas and New Year, I knew I had to buckle down to the second draft of novel #3, which I had spent most of December planning out on my Scrivener virtual cork board. A stretch of quiet, concentrated time was what . . . → Read More
By Julia, on January 9th, 2012

Well, the WONDERFUL bound proofs of Every Vow You Break came through, and, as you can see, like me, AgentSimon thinks they’re fab.
But, really, publishers. Let a writer loose on her book before it’s published? When it looks like a real book? ‘Dear Lovely Editor. I’ve got just a few teeny weeny amendments . . . → Read More
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