Tag Archives: Adventure

SALAD: Southend Area Local Authors’ Day 18-19 March 2017

Described in the Essex Book Festival programme as: ‘A weekend of talks, storytelling, readings and workshops by very talented and colourful local authors, whose work spans a wide variety of genres, from local history, fiction and non- fiction, to fantasy, science fiction and children’s books.’ An enjoyable weekend, which I hope will become an […]

Essex Book Festival 2017: Local Authors’ Day Saturday 18th March

On Saturday 18th March, at Chelmsford library, the Essex Book Festival hosted a Local Authors’ Day, including workshops, readings by 35 local writers, with stalls and signing sessions throughout the day. I thoroughly enjoyed participating in the event, opening the readings at 10am and following with a talk on writing for young adults at midday, before dashing […]

New Publicity Materials Produced in Time for Essex Book Festival Talks

I have just taken delivery of my new marketing materials in time for my talks at the Essex Book Festival later this month (at the Essex Authors’ Day on 18th March and the Southend Area Local Authors’ Day on 18th and 19th March). Now that the whole trilogy is published, I decided I needed some publicity postcards […]

Competition: …and the Winners Are…

Thank you to everyone who entered my competition to win one of five free signed copies of They Do Things Differently Here, Book 1 in The Invisible College Trilogy, an apocalyptic dystopian conspiracy mystery, equally enjoyable for young adults and adults. The winners’ names, selected using a random number generator, are listed at the foot of this […]

Winterfest at Brightlingsea

I thoroughly enjoyed reading from my The Invisible College trilogy in a packed room at the Words at Winterfest at Brightlingsea Winterfest yesterday. Thank you to those who spoke to me after my reading and especially to those who bought my books. The Invisible College trilogy (They Do Things Differently Here, Dust and Shadows, A Perilous […]

Interview by Sarah E Smith, Essex Author

Sarah E Smith, Essex author of Youth Adventure/Sci-Fi and Crime novels, recently interviewed me as the first in a series she is conducting in the build up to the Southend Area Local Authors’ Day (SALAD), one of the events in the Essex Book Festival, to be held on 18th/19th March at The Southend Forum, Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1NS. The interview […]

The Invisible College Trilogy: On Sale in Foyles, Chelmsford

Just before Christmas, Mark, the manager of Foyles Chelmsford branch kindly agreed to stock a few copies of my trilogy ‘to see how it goes’. I popped into the shop today (6th January 2017) to introduce myself and to see if they were on display. I was delighted to discover that book one, ‘They Do […]