Inner peace As I prepare to release my third novel, it feels like the world is a strange and dark place. After two years of the Covid pandemic that transformed lives and spread fear throughout the world, there is now a brutal war taking place in Ukraine – the country where I lived for many […]
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Independent Publishing: One Year On
A year anniversary It has been one year since I launched my debut novel The Woman Behind the Waterfall in a Waterstones bookshop in London. The launch party and book release culminated months of hard work and discovery, climbing a steep learning curve of knowledge about the self-publishing industry. Why did I choose to go […]
Read More...The Unity Game: Literary Fiction… and so much more
7 Months. 2 Novels. 3 Genres. On May 1, 2017 – just 7 months after the release of my debut novel – I launched my second book: The Unity Game. I had started writing The Unity Game while my debut novel was with my London literary agent. It takes a long time to sell a […]
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A journey into the world of book blogs and book reviewers As part of my learning curve finding about the modern world of publishing and book promotion, I spent the last few months asking book bloggers and on-line book reviewers to read and review my book; and also making contact with their audiences by writing […]
Read More...The Beauty of Western Ukraine
My favourite parts of Ukraine are the western and south western areas. The countryside is viscerally beautiful and stunningly lush and verdant. When I began writing my first novel, this was the natural place for me to set it – somewhere so little known and yet so rich in culture and beauty. I tried in my novel […]
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