With winter is just around the corner, there is no better time for me to knuckle down and work on a manuscript. But, before I do, there was just time to squeeze in a holiday before I dig out the winter woollies from the bottom of the wardrobe and hibernate until spring. As many of […]
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I can’t believe it’s almost the end of February, and I am only just updating this page. It’s not that I had forgotten or been disorganised, my only excuse is that I’ve been busy! My diary is full of speaking and multi-author book signing events, all of which are listed on the Events page of […]
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July was a busy month; hence the lateness of this update. Over the weekend of 11-13 July, two hundred and fifty novelists gathered in glorious sunshine for the annual Romantic Novelists’ Association conference at Harper Adams University. Set in the heart of the Shropshire, Harper Adams is an agricultural college complete with cows, pigs and […]
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A full programme of events has now been released for the inaugural Penistone Literary Festival. Headlined by one of the best poets of his generation, Simon Armitage, and best selling author, Milly Johnson, supported by Andrew Macmillan, crime writer M J Fowler, and other local poets and authors, it promises to be a fun-filled two-days […]
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It’s been a while since I posted, I know. I can’t even use working in the garden as an excuse, because on the whole, the weather has been cold, grey and rather miserable. But I had some very good news this month – I’ve been invited to speak at the 1st ever Penistone Literary Festival […]
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A belated Happy New Year! 2014 kicked off with a large portion of southern England underwater. While South Yorkshire has been battered intermittently by gale force winds, I’ve been beavering away in my office, and left wondering what happened to January. My writing time has been divided between working on my current manuscript, speaking engagements, […]
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On Friday, 12th July 1013, the hottest weekend of the year so far, I joined 180 members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association at The Edge, part of the University of Sheffield Endcliffe Campus, for their annual conference. Modern and spacious, The Edge offers superb conference facilities with onsite accommodation. But my goodness was it hot. […]
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As some of you may know, Milly Johnson and I held a crash course in novel writing on the 17th June. I must admit that, for a short time at least, I had a few sleepless nights about picking a date that coincided with Father’s day here in the UK. Fortunately, I need not have […]
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Milly Johnson and I are running an afternoon ‘crash course’ in writing a book in Barnsley on Sunday 17th June, 2pm-5pm Both of us will be giving a presentation, there will be afternoon tea, plenty of time for questions and our latest books will be available to purchase. We’ve both given our course before and […]
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World Book Night is a celebration of literature. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with libraries, World Book Day and the BBC, one million books will be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK […]
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