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...
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- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
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,...
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- Jul 1, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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- Jun 29, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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- May 9, 2021
- 1 min
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,...
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- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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- Mar 4, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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- Mar 3, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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- Jan 21, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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- Dec 15, 2020
- 11 min
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...
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- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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- Aug 15, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Jul 21, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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- Jul 17, 2020
- 1 min
TripFiction
Just discovered TripFiction - like a glossy holiday brochure for book loving armchair travellers! I love reading books set in places I...
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- Jun 26, 2020
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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...
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- Jun 21, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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