Tag Archives: SALAD

SALAD: Southend Area Local Authors’ Day Saturday 6th July 2019

Not to be missed! On Saturday, 6th July, the 2019 Southend Area Local Authors’ Day (SALAD), with the Southend Festival. The opportunity to meet, talk and listen to local authors from the Southend-on-Sea and surrounding area. Share stories and experiences of writing and buy their books. Participating authors from a number of genres, including fiction, […]

SALAD: Southend Area Local Authors’ Day Saturday 7th July 2018

Along with many other local authors, I will be participating in the 2018 Southend Area Local Authors’ Day (SALAD), part of the Southend Festival 2018 Literary Events. This is an ideal opportunity to meet local authors, share stories and experiences of their writing and yours, and to buy their books. Participating authors from a number of […]

More Essex Bookshops to Stock The Invisible College Trilogy

A good week on the marketing front. With my Essex Book Festival talks at the Essex Authors’ Day and the Southend Area Local Authors’ Day just two weeks away (18th/19th March) I am delighted that several more Essex bookshops have agreed to stock titles in The Invisible College Trilogy. Waterstones, Southend-on-Sea, has agreed to stock all three titles (They Do Things Differently […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]