Thank you to Jo Fletcher Books for the review copy. Pen’s life is all about secrets: the secret of the city’s spirits, deities and monsters her best friend Beth discovered, living just beyond the notice of modern Londoners; the secret of how she got the intricate scars that disfigure her… Continue reading
Happy Monday everyone! Just a quick blog spot today on some things you can expect to see coming up on site soon. Firstly here is what I am currently reading. So reviews on those coming as and when. Later this week we have Q & A’s with Hannah Beckerman and… Continue reading
Talking about publishing today – Steve McHugh author of The Hellequin Chronicles. http://stevejmchugh.wordpress.com/ A Less Traditional View. There’s a lot of talk about traditional publishing vs. self-publishing. People seem to be on one side or the other, some venomously so. But I see no reason why you can’t use… Continue reading
Talking about publishing today – author of Augustus Baltazar – Neil Bursnoll http://www.bourbonicafro.co.uk/blog/ With traditional publishing you don’t have the problems of finding money for an editor, or pushing your book out to big name papers and magazines to build early interest. When self-publishing, you have to build your presence… Continue reading
Today talking about publishing is author of GodHead – Ken Mooney. http://kenmooneybooks.com/ If I went looking hard enough, I could probably find some of the first things that I wrote. A school copybook here, a discarded Word document there. Looking back, I’m embarrassed to admit that some of… Continue reading
I asked 3 authors to tell me their thoughts on Traditional publishing and Self publishing – later in the week you can hear from Ken Mooney and Neil Bursnoll, but today its the turn of Dean Crawford who has been traditionally published and has since self published. Thank you to… Continue reading
To be Published 13th March by Harper Collins Thank you THANK YOU to Kate and Bob at Killer Reads for the advance copy. Probably THE best book post I have ever had. Penn Cage is facing a son’s worst nightmare – having his father stand accused of murder. Worse, each… Continue reading
Coming May 22nd from Hodder and Stoughton Thank you to publisher and author for the ARC. They’re here … The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there’s so many … They’re coming for me now. We’re all going soon. All of us. Pastor Len… Continue reading
Coming 6th March from Penguin Thank you to the publisher for the advance copy. Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story. He lives in the leafy suburbs with his wife, Alice, who illustrates his award-winning children’s books and gives him her unstinting devotion. Their life together is one… Continue reading
The Herbalist is one of my favourite novels to come from Penguin lately and as the winner of the 2012 Hennesssy XO Award for New Irish Writing I was keen to find out a little more. So I was very happy when Niamh Boyce agreed to answer a few little… Continue reading
