Posts by Julia

Who was more excited?

Simon emails me and asks me this, after my editor, Leah Woodburn and I have finished our[…]

The deal is struck

So, Headline got back with a pre-emptive offer and, after a week of to-ing and fro-ing and[…]

Gulp…

I arrive early at the publishers’ office, which is a whole tower block on the Euston Road,[…]

Hurrah!

The second publisher that gets CUCKOO is interested. The editor says she loved it because it is[…]

All Systems Go

So, on Simon’s advice, I have written a prologue, so that prospective publishers know that, despite the[…]

Oh No!

I thought that there were no novels called just CUCKOO. But I did a thorough search on[…]

The Meeting

I go up to London on the train, looking through my manuscript one last time. The woman[…]

D’oh

I realise, on reading CUCKOO through so that I can remember what I wrote when I go[…]

Wooda farm, Crackington Haven, Heaven on earth.

He Rang!

I have just got back from LA, where I have been with littleson for three weeks to[…]

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