Archive for May, 2008

Surviving a drowning

Posted on 19 May 2008 In Celebrity Interviews, Published Articles, What Authors Need To Know

The Independent on Sunday 18th May 2008 Richard Mason has advice for struggling novelists: be careful what you wish for, because it may drive you mad. It is advice based on bitter experience. Looking handsome and relaxed over breakfast at the Groucho, he is now 30 and a long way
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The phantom premise

Posted on 4 February 2012

Mslexia 50, summer 2011 Ghost stories are the biggest trend in fiction right now, Danuta Kean discovers the rules of writing a bestseller Like the spectre in M R James’s The Mezzotint, ghost stories have crossed the literary landscape and passed through genre boundaries to become the fastest rising trend.
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It’s good to be back

Posted on 3 February 2012

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I’ve been away for a while, but I’m back with a relaunched site that will continue to provide a reality check about publishing as well as reviews of books for toddlers (Babster’s Books) and life as the surrendered wife of a Frenchman (if
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Je suis une housewife….among other things

Posted on 3 January 2012

Welcome to the Madame Perrier section of my blog. It is a personal blog – as opposed to being about books, business or otherwise – in which I will write about daily life, motherhood and the general concerns of a 21st Century woman trying to juggle too much. If you wonder
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