Month August 2021

3. Are you a plan, plan, plan writer or do you sit down and see where the words take you? 2. What inspired the book? 4. Is there anything about the process of publishing a book that surprised you? It…

Anna moves to Crovie, a tiny fishing village on the Moray Firth, for a fresh start. But when she arrives, she realises her new home is really no more than a shed, and the village itself sits beneath a cliff…

Skincare is the go-to book for people of all ages and skin types who want to feel and look fantastic. It explains the facts, the myths and the best way to get good skin – on any budget. With everything from…

Following publication of her picture book, Rainy Day, Emma wrote three YA novels. Her first, Now You See Me, was an Amazon bestseller and nominated for the Carnegie and Amazing Book Awards. Better Left Buried, her second, was one of…

Follow Sharon Gosling: Anna decided that she was done being at a disadvantage and so unclipped her seat belt and pushed open the door. Once she was on her feet she stood a head over him, yet he remained imposing.…

Buy Lunch Poems from Bookshop.org, Book Depository, Waterstones, Amazon or Amazon AU. I don’t know how many copies of this book I have bought, over the years, but it’s a lot. You never know when you’re going to have a…

Taking my copy to Portobello beach! 2 SUMMERS AGO: It all goes wrong. From the back of the book You may be thinking that some of this sounds similar in some ways to When Harry Met Sally and you would…

Perhaps a better comparison would be to think on the Black Lives Matter movement. Prejudice and colonialism manifests itself in complex ways. Whilst there are undoubtedly differences between sectarianism and racism, there are also some similarities. Religion in Northern Ireland…

This really is one for the soppy romantics, because Sebastian and Tanner’s story is very cheesy and defo not for anyone looking for something realistic… that’s not to say they aren’t realistic characters though! Both of them, as well as…

The project I am currently working on, and which will likely be released in 2022, features romanticism and neoclassicism. However, what compelled me to write a book that opens in 1813 was not so much the feeling the era gave…