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Travelling In Time With A Book - Jennifer Macaire - This Writing Life #25

Lynne Shelby

Dec 3, 2020
6 min

Travelling In Time With A Book - Jennifer Macaire - This Writing Life #25

Today, I'm delighted to welcome Jennifer Macaire with a guest post about her passion for dinosaurs and sabretooth tigers - and her latest novel, A Remedy In Time, which will be published on 7 January 2021. Over to Jennifer... * Thank you for having me as a guest on your blog! I'm here to talk about my newest time travel book, 'A Remedy in Time', and what inspired me to write it. I've had a passion for time travel ever since I found out about dinosaurs. I admit, I've watched

My Journey To Publication - Annette Hannah - This Writing Life #19

Lynne Shelby

Jul 8, 2020
3 min

My Journey To Publication - Annette Hannah - This Writing Life #19

Today, I'm delighted to join the Blog Tour for Annette Hannah's wonderful debut novel, Wedding Bells at the Signal Box Café. I asked Annette to tell me about her journey to publication. Over to you, Annette... Hi Lynne, thank you so much for having me on your lovely blog, it feels quite strange for me as being a blogger myself I’m normally the interviewer. I’ve been writing a book a year for four years now and after I wrote each one I would send it out to a handful of agents

Cassandra Comes to Cornwall - Jenny Kane

Lynne Shelby

Jul 2, 2020
5 min

Cassandra Comes to Cornwall - Jenny Kane

Today, I'm delighted to be taking part in Jenny Kane's blog tour for A Cornish Wedding. Over to Jenny... Cassandra comes to Cornwall Jenny Kane Many thanks to Lynne, for inviting me to come along today to talk about my Cornish romcom, A Cornish Wedding, on the first leg of my book launch #blogtour. A Cornish Wedding (previously known as Abi’s Neighbour), is the second novel to feature former Surrey resident Abi Carter. In the first book, A Cornish Escape (which doesn’t have t

Lynne Shelby

Mar 20, 2020
2 min

Book Birds - book quiz #2

For everyone who, like me, is missing their pub quiz, for everyone who loves book quizzes … actually, for everyone who's stuck at home in these strange sad times... Twenty quiz questions about books - with a bird in the answer (Answers after the final question): 1) Who wrote Gulliver's Travels? 2) What species of bird is Hedwig in the Harry Potter books? 3) Which publishing house published its first book in 1935? 4) Which John Grisham novel was made into a 1993 film starring

Making Sense of Chaos - Giulia Skye - This Writing Life #17

Lynne Shelby

Feb 6, 2020
4 min

Making Sense of Chaos - Giulia Skye - This Writing Life #17

Today, it's my pleasure to welcome Giulia Skye, with a guest post about her writing process and her debut novel, Her Outback Driver. Over to Guilia ... Making Sense of Chaos Giulia Skye Have you ever disturbed a trail of ants and watched the ensuing chaos? The once uniform line turns into a mass of scattered dots, patches here and there that have no shape or pattern, then after a few minutes of reordering, the ants fall into line again, the trail restored into a seamless flow

How Family Feeds My Fiction - Vivien Brown - This Writing Life #16

Lynne Shelby

Jan 17, 2020
4 min

How Family Feeds My Fiction - Vivien Brown - This Writing Life #16

Today, I'm delighted to welcome Vivien Brown to my blog, with a fab guest post. Over to Vivien … How Family Feeds My Fiction Vivien Brown Since giving up the day job and becoming a full-time writer, it’s been hard to separate the two halves of my life – family and work. After all, they exist side by side under the same roof. My ‘office’ is a bedroom upstairs, my ‘works canteen’ is my home kitchen, and a call arriving on the phone on my desk is just as likely to be from a frie

The Killer Touch - This Writing Life #15 - Lorraine Mace

Lynne Shelby

Jan 10, 2020
3 min

The Killer Touch - This Writing Life #15 - Lorraine Mace

Today, I'm delighted to host a guest post from Lorraine Mace about her writing life as an author of hard-boiled crime fiction. Over to Lorraine... The Killer Touch - Lorraine Mace I write what is termed hard-boiled crime and I’m often asked how I come up with story ideas. I always give the same response: I have an evil mind. The knowledge that I know more ways to kill people and cover up the crime than the average woman doesn’t help my partner to a restful night. I think he’s

This Writing Life #14 - Tom Williams - From Historical to Magical

Lynne Shelby

Dec 16, 2019
3 min

This Writing Life #14 - Tom Williams - From Historical to Magical

Today, I'm delighted to welcome author Tom Williams to my blog, with a guest post about his writing life and his new novel, Dark Magic. Over to Tom ... From Historical to Magical Tom Williams Even when I was young, so long ago that the history I write about these days was practically current affairs, I wanted to be a writer. What eventually inspired me to put words on paper was a visit to Borneo where I discovered James Brooke, the first White Rajah. His story was crying out

Lynne Shelby

Sep 9, 2019
3 min

Adventures In Theatreland

London’s theatre district – Theatreland – is one of my favourite parts of the city. There’s nothing quite like the heady atmosphere of the West End on a Saturday night when audiences are streaming into the theatres that line Shaftesbury Avenue and the Strand to see a play or a musical. I visit the theatre as often as I can, and I knew for a long time that I wanted to write a novel set in that world. Not that I’ve ever had any ambition to be a professional actress (I did take

Because I Love What I Do - Sandy Barker -This Writing Life #9

Lynne Shelby

Jun 24, 2019
4 min

Because I Love What I Do - Sandy Barker -This Writing Life #9

I'm delighted to welcome Sandy Barker to my blog with a guest post about her writing life. Sandy's debut novel, One Summer In Santorini, is published today! Over to you, Sandy: When I started teaching in the 90s, I was tasked with teaching English to teenagers. I soon discovered two things. One, most teenagers don’t like English class, and two, even though I’d aced my English Lit degree and my post-graduate in teaching, graduating both with honours, I had no idea how to teach

Socks, teaspoons and other things I won’t mention - Colette McCormick - My Brother's Keeper Blog

Lynne Shelby

May 27, 2019
3 min

Socks, teaspoons and other things I won’t mention - Colette McCormick - My Brother's Keeper Blog

Today I'm delighted to be taking part in the Blog Tour for Colette McCormick's 'Not My Brother's Keeper.' Over to Colette and her guest post about the inspiration behind her new novel: 'Not My Brother’s Keeper' was born out of a throw away comment when my eldest son left home and his brother volunteered to go into the bedroom and ‘clear up the mess’ that had been left behind. There was something about the comment and the way that he said it that set the wheels in motion. Obv

What If? - Jenny Kane
Another Cup of Coffee Anniversary Tour

Lynne Shelby

Nov 12, 2018
6 min

What If? - Jenny Kane Another Cup of Coffee Anniversary Tour

Today, I'm delighted to host a guest post from Jenny Kane as part of her 'Another Cup of Coffee Anniversary Blog Tour.' Over to Jenny... It is five years since I celebrated the publication of my very first work of contemporary women’s fiction: Another Cup of Coffee. As you can imagine, I raised more than one cup of black coffee that day. Although I’d already had a large number of stories, long and short, published under various other pen names, this was the story that I’d alw

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