books
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I first heard about Mark West‘s books when my partner read one of them and said what a gripping read it was, so it was great to meet him at Louise Jensen‘s latest book launch. There, he agreed to let me interview him and find out more about his books, ideas, current work in progress,…
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Last week, I announced a short story competition to celebrate the paperback launch of my book, A Walk in the Woods. If you haven’t entered yet, don’t worry; you have until the 14th February. The competition is to write a short story, with the following opening line: Thank goodness they had gone. Who had gone…
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To celebrate the paperback launch of A Walk in the Woods, I’m holding a short story competition. A copy of my book will go to the winning entry and the story will also be published on my blog. If you’ve already bought a copy of the book, thank you, but why not still enter and…
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I’m delighted to welcome fellow Newburian, Martin Strike, better known as The Newbury Short Story Teller as my interviewee this week. I first met Martin when he wrote a delightful tale about the cat he and his wife had just adopted from Newbury Cats Protection for The Cat Flap magazine (I’m editor of the magazine).…
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For those of you who missed my blog from Saturday – I’m pleased to announce that the paperback version of A Walk in the Woods is finally out. Here’s an extract from one of the short stories: Home Six o’ clock in the morning. Another day Muriel would rather be dead. She opened her eyes…
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Finally, my book, A Walk in the Woods, is out in paperback! As many of you know, it’s been available as an ebook for some months. I’d hoped to be able to release the paperback not long after, but there were several issues which resulted in its delay. Still, it’s here at last and I…
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Many of you will know the very talented author, Robbie Cheadle. I’m thrilled she agreed to be my author interviewee this week. In the interview, she tells us about her latest book, how she goes about her detailed research for each of her books, how she gets her ideas and much more. Q. Your book…
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I met fellow editor, Emma Mitchell at Harrogate Crime Festival this year and we had a good chat about all sorts of things to do with editing, especially our thoughts on the use of the Oxford comma! Emma’s recently brought out a wonderful book of short stories with all the proceeds going to charity. Please…
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I first came across this book at Harrogate Crime Festival a couple of years ago. As I’m sure many a reader who has a massive to-be-read pile will understand, when you get another book, it just goes on top of the pile. Though, I’d heard a lot of great things about Cally’s books and so…
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As many of you who have self-published will know, formatting your book, ensuring the book cover looks right etc, isn’t easy and there’s many a hurdle to be overcome along the way. This is exactly what’s happened with A Walk in the Woods. But, I think (fingers crossed!), I’m almost there. So the paperback version…
Esther Chilton 