I’m a cover girl! Okay, so perhaps girl is pushing it slightly, but if you happen to buy issue #143 of Writers’ Forum, you’ll see me on the front cover. I was interviewed by the fabulous Helen M Hunt and that covers a double page inside. It’s called ‘Let your novel find its voice ‘ […]
Two signings, I met wonderful people. One TV interview, I was humbled by how enthusiastic and warm the presenters were. I cried as I left Malta. The island is full of magic. I might go back soon. Here are your postcards, the words I have written on them begin with, Wish you were here, the […]
Because you’re lovely, for the next two weeks the Kindle version of ‘FREAKS!‘ is being offered for FREE over on Amazon. Details of ‘FREAKS!’, for those who don’t know: Written by Caroline Smailes and Nik Perring, illustrated by Darren Craske, the weirdest stories you will ever read. A bizarre collection of short stories, each featuring a character […]
I’m very much looking forward to being involved in two events in Liverpool next week. Moby Dick on the Mersey, May 4th-6th, 2013: Liverpool’s first ever Moby Dick marathon reading takes place at the Merseyside Maritime Museum over the three days of May 4th-6th 2013, and will involve up to 135 readers, each tackling a chapter of […]
Three weeks since publication, the reviews are still popping up: The Amazon reviews keep coming, thank you to those who took the time. Author Amanda Jennings wrote a post called ‘When Other Authors Inspire You’. There’s an exclusive interview with me over on Handbag.com (please note that I’m not writing the screenplay, but the rest […]
Six weeks ago, I applied to Arts Council England and the National Lottery for ‘Time to Write’ funding. For those who don’t know, Arts Council England supports arts and culture using money from the government and the National Lottery. I put in an application to grants for the arts, based on a synopsis for my […]
Things are slowing down, I’m catching up. People continue to be lovely about me and about ‘The Drowning of Arthur Braxton’. In the last few days: The hour spent talking to Bookcunt is now a blog post. Here are her thoughts on me. And, I shared a photo and description of my writing space with […]
I’m a little bit obsessed with all things French, novel seven will be set in Paris (novel six will be set in Liverpool). I lived in France when I was eighteen, had an adventure, lost and found myself on the way. One day I’d like to be published in French, it’s on my publishing-wish-list (along […]
So, publication day happened and it was, without a doubt, my most favourite publication day to date. A train to London, a tube to Hammersmith and there I occupied my publisher’s desk (as seen on the photo). A Twitter take over, signing a huge pile of books, being interviewed by Bookcunt and then a phone […]
It’s Wednesday evening, it’s the night before the official publication date, it’s already been quite a week. Last night was the Liverpool launch of The ‘Drowning of Arthur Braxton’. Littlest made me smile when she talked about the evening, amazed that everywhere she looked there were smiling people. I like that that’s how she’ll remember […]