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  • Anne Allen ~ 2nd Summer Special of Successful Indie Authors

    I’m especially pleased to have this interview with Anne Allen; a successful Indie Author of ‘The Guernsey Novels’. Being a lover of The Channel Islands I have read several of Anne’s books. I hope this will appeal to writers, fans and potential readers alike… Welcome on my blog Anne!  Thank you, Diana, I appreciate you…

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  • A Zoom Writing Retreat — Sally Jenkins

    Although lockdown is gradually easing, there are still lots of things we can’t do. Groups meeting together indoors is one of them. This has led to the rise and rise of Zoom, video conferencing software that most of us had never heard of at the beginning of March but now use regularly. I take part […]…

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  • Genre Bending Novels ~ What, Where and How ~ Answers for Writers and Readers

    Have you even wanted to write or read a book which doesn’t quite fit into the norm of genre? For the writer Here’s some useful advice for the writer on current trends, how to go about writing such a novel and how to pitch it or market it once it’s completed. For the Reader Following…

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  • Two extremely positive ways to launch a novel

    Hi folks Since launching my new mystery novel ‘MISSING Past and Present’ on line on 28th February I have enjoyed two events: Celebration of the Book Launch in Kinghorn Station Gallery on Sunday 15th March and A Coffee Pot Book Shop Blog Tour organised by the capable Mary Ann Yarde. Little did I know that,…

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  • Announcing ~ MISSING Past and Present Coffee Pot Blog Tour

    Many many thanks to Mary Anne Yarde for organsing: THE COFFEE POT BOOK CLUB BLOG TOUR for MISSING Past and Present by Diana Jackson (Links to the actual blog posts will be updated here each day next week) MONDAY 6th APRIL 2020 ~ Derek Birks presents a book review on           …

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  • Getting in the Zone ~ Small Steps to Book Marketing

    Inspiration for Book Marketing I’ve just been inspired by an article by Sandra Beckwith on book marketing, posted on the wonderful blog The Book Designer. 3 Ways to Get Past What’s Holding You Back Sandra goes beyond looking at what holds you back in marketing but she also explores how to break free in a…

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  • Why Authors Blog

    On Twitter today @womewritersnet wrote: ‘This week we’ve been tweeting about how to enable our writing to reach a wider audience and #blogging has been recommended. Does anyone have experience of hosting guest blog posts or writing them? Can shared posts help to reach new audiences? Tell us your experiences.’ …and so here’s my response…

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  • The Last Post ~ on Fife for a wee while anyway!

    Before ‘virtually’ leaving Fife and its coastal path for a while to return to Bedfordshire (virtually of course) for a very special centenary and some exciting news related to my writing, I would like to share with you some of the wonderful blogs about my adopted home, the Kingdom of Fife.   The first is…

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