A Writer's Best Friend
We would like to introduce … Katherine Black, Author of A Question of Sanity, Leverage, Pedigree Crush with a Twisted Gene, Nowhere Boulevard, Lizards Leap and several other titles. Katherine Black is the owner of Best Book Editors and an Read More …
Not for the squeamish. I took my phone but didn’t get any photos. I will get some from the Watsapp group and add them. Though not directly related to the subject matter, you’ll be delighted to know. I hadn’t slept Read More …
Gosh, I’m shattered. I wanted to write this blog and got as far as the title before I had to take to my bed for a nap. Seriously, I wrote three words—and two hours, bang, gone. I have our staff Read More …
This week’s showcase author is Lucas Mayberry, who created Simon, a reluctant superhero. I figured I should probably blurt out a few words about superpowers. I don’t have one—do you? If I had to pick my everyday Superheroes—yay, I Read More …
Land ahoy shipmates. I haven’t the foggiest idea why I wrote that, but it felt like a good opener. Maybe because my beautiful Croatian holiday in the glorious Mediterranean has been beached, and I’ve been landlubbed—or whatever the term Read More …
Let’s see how far we get with this. It won’t be for everybody. Please click out now if you’re expecting book-related marketing for somebody, this one’s another personal update. It will have a good dollop of self-pity, a bushell of Read More …
There’s a story I heard somewhere concerning the fleet of the would-be conqueror Napoleon sailing up a channel to take the city of Venice. Whoever was in charge was unsure of their bearings, so called to a woman on the Read More …
Dreams are fascinating and come in several forms, touched on by author Amanda Sheridan in her excellent trilogy. Her books are Rapid Eye Movement, The Dreaming and her just-released novel Dream Catcher. But bear with me, and I’ll get back Read More …
Well, here I am, still writing blogs for BBE, which might not surprise you, but it does me. Recently, things have been fractious between me and Sooz, the boss, given that she took umbrage at some of the jokes Yours Read More …
“O, horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!” Yes, I am talking about horror novels, not about what those female MPs saw over the shoulder of Neil Parish, the most recent in a long Read More …
I’m sure my friend Amanda Sheridan won’t mind me chatting about our conversation. She posted a book review of something she’d read and said, ‘Don’t give it to your old granny to read’. In the spirit of fun, I had Read More …