Jane Corry is author of the new psychological suspense everyone's talking about - My Husband's Wife. Here she tells us how her experience working in a high-security prison provided inspiration for her debut novel, and she also provides some invaluable pearls of wisdom for aspiring authors... read on! What led you to write your debut thriller My Husband's Wife? It was a mixture of prison and marriage! After my first marriage ... Read the Post...
“I have never experienced anything like this first acceptance.”
Today we're joined by the brilliant Livi Michael who explains how her upbringing influenced her first novel, the difficulties of combining motherhood with writing, and how overwhelming it was to get published for the first time. Her new novel Accession, the final in her critically acclaimed War of the Roses trilogy, will be published on August 4th. Over to you, Livi...! Thank you for asking about my first novel – it’s lovely to ... Read the Post...
“I got one of those fabled phone calls, on a Friday afternoon” – Alan Glynn
Alan Glynn, the novelist behind the phenomenally successful Limitless, tells us about overcoming rejection, the "amazing sensation" of getting a book deal, and how a movie deal changed his writing career. Alan's fifth novel Paradime is out now. You've been with the literary agent Antony Harwood since 1997. Did it take you a long time to get an agent, and how did it come about? By that point, 1997, I had spent a couple of years sending the ... Read the Post...
“My sales and readership are continuing to grow”
Jackie Burke explains why she turned down a traditional publisher and decided to self-publish her debut novel instead What led you to write your first novel The Secrets of Grindlewood? I’ve always loved reading and writing and used to “dabble” in writing short stories and poems from an early age. Most of my stories were about animals and magic, which were also the kind of stories I liked to read. When I started writing Grindlewood, ... Read the Post...