Normally I wouldn’t touch the Daily Mail with a barge pole, but there was an interesting article about Harper Lee in there today. I hesitate to say ‘interview’ since she doesn’t actually answer any questions, it’s more of a fleeting sighting. However, it’s a fascinating profile of one of the world’s most lauded authors who [...]

Q: Hi Gaby, and huge congratulations on the imminent publication of your debut novel, ‘His Last Duchess’. How have the past few weeks been for you and what plans do you have around the launch of your book? A:   It’s all getting very exciting as the launch date approaches.  All sorts of things seem to [...]

I read this interview on the train this morning. It’s with Reif Larson who wrote ‘The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet’ and it made me giggle. A lot.

Exciting times! Bloomsbury have published my interview with Jane Rusbridge on their website HERE!

Q: Hi Gavin, as a registrant on your blog, a follower of yours on Twitter and a reader and sometimes contributor (of the very much milder sort of question) on your formspring.me page, I’m somewhat concerned that this interview will fail to match up on your outré stakes. Your online presence is kind of raw, [...]

Q: Jane, it was such a pleasure to meet you last week, thanks so much for coming along to the Tea Rooms and an even bigger thank you for a copy of your book, ‘The Devil’s Music’. I know you left me so I could write, but I couldn’t help but start reading your book [...]

Q: Hello John. Wow! What a journey you’ve been on. Through all the struggles you relate in your memoir ‘Sectioned: A Life Interrupted’ you wrote poetry. At what point did you start writing prose, and what happened to make you start writing your memoir? A: Prose and poetry were never at odds in my writing [...]

Q: Hi Leigh. We met at the VWC Get Writing Festival at the University of Hertfordshire last Saturday. What was it that inspired you to go along to the conference and did you achieve your objectives in attending? A: The VWC Get Writing Festival had a wonderful programme but I was only able to go [...]

Q: Hello Samuel and congratulations on the publication of your debut novel ‘Playground’ hitting the shelves later this month. Thanks so much for letting me read a copy and for this opportunity to discuss your work with you in more detail. Let’s start by talking about how this book came about and how you found [...]

Q: Hello Josa. ‘One Apple Tasted’ is your first published novel but words have been your career since you were a finalist in a Vogue talent contest.  You have written and/or edited for The Telegraph, The Times, Vogue, Tatler, Harpers and Queen and countless magazines and websites. How did this prepare you for writing a [...]

Q: Hello George, *smooch*. We met on the social networking site for the chronically concise, Twitter. I have found the writing and publishing community to be thriving in the Twitterverse and as a novelist I’ve picked up all sorts of useful hints and tips from agents, publishers and other writers and bibliophiles, as well as [...]

Q: Hello Isabel. You initially approached me via the Book Group I run in Chichester through the meetup.com website as your debut novel, ‘Glasshopper’, hit the shops. Your publishers, Myriad Editions, were also kind enough to extend an invitation to me to your launch party at Chichester University earlier on in the month, which I [...]

Q: Hello Andrew. You and I ‘met’ fairly recently when you discovered a Book Review on my website of Luke Bitmead’s novel ‘White Summer’. Your novel, ‘On the Holloway Road’ won the Luke Bitmead Writer’s bursary and this is how you became a published author via Legend Press. How have you found this experience and [...]

Hi Tim, It was great to meet you at the Chichester Writing Festival held in West Dean College at the end of March and a pleasure to read your third published novel, ‘The Dog of the North’ subsequently. There were many things that fascinated me about this piece of work, but let’s start by talking [...]