Today’s blog tour stops off at From First Page to Last. This fantastic blog is the brainchild of Janet, who says of herself:
I’m…a 36 year old, wife to one, mum to two. I work in legal publishing, so I spend all day reading legislation. I have a thing for reading and so I thought I’d set up this blog to record my bookish ramblings.
Her blog is a mixture of reviews, author/publisher spotlights and bookish news.… read more
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 process.
If you have even glanced at some of my previous posts, you will have gleaned that, in NaNoWriMo parlance, I am a pantser, not a plotter.… read more
My drawing for The Author
So Old Man and I went to my friend Belinda Gannaway‘s jolly birthday party on Saturday night in the very atmospheric conditions of Brighton Sailing Club on the rainy, stormy, high tide seafront. (Brighton Sailing Club sounds frightfully grand, but it’s really just a slightly damp promenade arch with a cheap bar).
Anyway, Belinda came up and said ‘you must meet my friend Ben Hatch. He’s a novelist too.’ So we did.… read more
Today, to lunch near Headline’s offices with my editor and my publicist, the formidable Sam Eades.
After a week up a mountain in Spain, where dressing up involved putting another fleece over the one I wore in the day to keep myself a bit warm when we sat outside for dinner, the task of looking presentable seemed quite daunting. However, I managed to scrub up, in the opinion of the Old Man, ‘quite nicely’, and set off on the train for London.… read more
Oh my god. Leah sent over the cover art and, as you can see, it is fantastic. I am so excited and so relieved.
A little history. For the past fifteen years, I have been making a living as a website/graphic designer and illustrator. I have even designed some book covers for old man: The Author, my arm, an oak tree and ENGLAND. When people heard my novel was being published, an early question was ‘are you going to do the cover?’.… read more
