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THE KEEPER OF SONGS: FIRST BLOGGER REVIEWS
Book bloggers are so important to authors these days, with ever-diminishing space in newspapers and magazines for reviews, and I’ve been...

Fiona Mountain
Aug 8, 202110 min read
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Publication Day!
The Keeper of Songs is published today and the audio drama adaptation is also released today. Having stated my working life in radio,...

Fiona Mountain
Jul 1, 20213 min read
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The Living History of Traditional Folk Songs
The Keeper of Songs is published tomorrow. It's inspired by folk music, and I've written a feature for Historia Magazine about why old...

Fiona Mountain
Jul 1, 20211 min read
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The Keeper of Songs - Audio Drama
I've been working with the brilliant team at Alternative Stories on an audio drama adaptation of The Keeper of Songs, featuring actresses...

Fiona Mountain
Jun 29, 20211 min read
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Audio Drama Interview
I've been working with Alternative Stories on an audio drama adaptation my new book, The Keeper of Songs. Starring actress Amy Forrest,...

Fiona Mountain
May 9, 20211 min read
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Historic Houses: The True Stars of Period Dramas
I found the recent World Monuments Fund's webinar, ’Historic Houses: The True Stars of Period Dramas' fascinating - both as someone how...

Fiona Mountain
Apr 1, 20212 min read
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International Women's Day
It’s International Women’s Day, so here are nine wonderful female folk musicians who I have had the huge pleasure of listening to and...

Fiona Mountain
Mar 8, 20211 min read
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New Novel Coming Soon
The Keeper of Songs Publication Date: June 2021 (Snowglobe Books) Secrets hide in the strangest places * A missing singer A doomed love...

Fiona Mountain
Mar 4, 20212 min read
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World Book Day & Women’s History Month
Today is World Book Day and this month is Women’s History Month, so given that all of my books are inspired by women in history, what...

Fiona Mountain
Mar 4, 20213 min read
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SnowGlobe Books
So I’ve learned several things this month. Indie authors need to buy their own ISBNs and when I went to purchase my bundle of 10 and...

Fiona Mountain
Mar 3, 20211 min read
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RNA Blog - My Indie Journey
I was asked to write this blog by the Romantic Novelists Association's Romance Reading Month. For our second post on #RNAIndieAuthors...

Fiona Mountain
Feb 25, 20213 min read
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Audio Drama Collaboration
Excitingly, and fittingly, since it’s a story about a song, my new novel ‘The Keeper of Songs’ will be a musical audio drama before it’s...

Fiona Mountain
Feb 15, 20211 min read
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Do Judge A Book
The adage ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ isn’t really true of - well - books, is it? I know I’m a fairly harsh judge. I’m drawn to buy...

Fiona Mountain
Jan 21, 20213 min read
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Indie Stories - Will the John Peel of Books Please Step Forward
Ten years ago when my marriage, my family and my personal life in general was falling apart, a friend asked me a probing question which...

Fiona Mountain
Dec 15, 202011 min read
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Songs of Yesterday for Today
I always write to music. Not necessarily music that's obviously connected to what I'm writing about; it just needs to conjure the right...

Fiona Mountain
Nov 24, 20202 min read
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VJ Day
‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.’ Poet Laurence Binyon wrote ‘For the Fallen’ as he sat looking...

Fiona Mountain
Aug 15, 20201 min read
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This Song is Based on a True Story
My favourite stories in books and films are often the ones that contain a nugget of fact. I’ve just finished reading ‘Unsheltered’ by...

Fiona Mountain
Jul 21, 20203 min read
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TripFiction
Just discovered TripFiction - like a glossy holiday brochure for book loving armchair travellers! I love reading books set in places I...

Fiona Mountain
Jul 17, 20201 min read
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National Insect Week - Celebrating The Lady of the Butterflies
During the Royal Entomological Society’s National Insect Week, who better to celebrate than Eleanor Glanville, who I came to admire so...

Fiona Mountain
Jun 26, 20201 min read
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Counterfactual 2020
Near the top of my 'to be read' pile of books is 'Rodham' by Curtis Sittenfield, which asks, 'What if Hilary hadn't married Bill,' and I...

Fiona Mountain
Jun 21, 20203 min read
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