I’ve always loved the Richard & Judy book club. Their choices have so often mirrored mine, and when they picked something I’d never heard of it was always worth reading. The club champions reading, books, and authors, and has a fantastic reach, thanks to its partnership with WHSmith. Richard & Judy book club and I Let […]
I Let You Go
How books are made
Last week I went to Clays in Suffolk to find out how books are made, and to watch the paperback of I Let You Go being printed. It was a fascinating and incredibly emotional day, and if you are an author and ever have the chance to see your book being made, I’d wholeheartedly recommend […]
Competition: win a signed copy of I Let You Go
It’s publication week! I Let You Go will be out in ebook and trade paperback on Thursday 6 November, and I’m almost beside myself with excitement. I’m saving the big party for the paperback release in April, so for now it’s just a bottle of bubbly and a big grin at having made it this […]
Foreign rights, a new school year, and good intentions
I’m a big fan of September. There’s something about the smell of sharpened pencils that makes me twice as productive as other times of the year, not least because the school holidays which precede it have usually trained me to fit my work in to much less time than normal. Sadly, by the time October […]
Book covers: what draws you in?
A library in Cumbria is wrapping books in plain paper, to encourage readers to expand their choices and pick up something they wouldn’t normally read. It’s not a new idea (Google ‘blind date with a book’, and you’ll see what I mean) but it’s a great one. Covers are hugely important. as I write this, […]