Category: Guest Post

Blog Tour / Guest Post: ‘The inspiration of The Corineus Theatre’ by Tracy Corbett, author of Summer Theatre By The Sea

Posted April 15, 2018 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments

Today on the blog I’m so happy to welcome Tracy Corbett , author of Summer Theatre by the Sea with a guest post all about her inspiration behind the Corineus Theatre. Don’t forget to check out all the other awesome stops on the tour. Guest Post: It’s probably no surprise that The Corineus Theatre in The Summer Theatre by the Sea is based on The Minack in Penzance. What a stunning venue. The stage is cut into the rock face, looking almost as if its suspended in thin air. With the waves crashing behind and the wind swirling around the stone walls, it’s quite a spectacle. I hadn’t realised until visiting the theatre to watch a production of Amadeus that the cast are all amateurs. Each summer season various amateur groups from around the country travel down to Cornwall to put on a show. The quality of the shows are brilliant, and it’s quite an honour to be chosen to perform there. Naturally, as someone who loves amateur dramatics, I was captivated, my creative juices began to flow and the […]

Blog Tour / Guest Post: ‘My Top Tips for Writing a Novel’ Phillipa Ashley, author of Spring on the Little Cornish Isles

Posted March 4, 2018 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 2 Comments

Today I have the lovely Phillipa Ashley giving her top tips for writing a novel. Now just to make you aware this is a two parter post – and you can find the first part over at Annie’s Book Corner, so go check it out!! My Top Tips for Writing a Novel I can hardly believe that Spring on the Little Cornish Isles: the Flower Farm is my 16th published novel. I well remember the days when I was struggling to write my debut, Decent Exposure in 2005/6 and couldn’t imagine how authors wrote more than one book! Now I know. Eventually, experience and practice does pay off. You hone your skills, gain confidence in your writing voice and learn which techniques help you to complete a book and fix any issues. I was very lucky that my debut was eventually completed and published by Hachette. It went on to win the Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon prize for Debut Authors and was made into a TV movie. I’ve now been an author for over 13 years and I’m still on […]

Blog Tour / Guest Post – ‘My Ideas’ by Maddie Please author of A Year Of New Adventures

Posted February 22, 2018 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments

Today I’m super exciting to welcome to the blog, Maddie Please, author of A Year of New Adventures with a post about her ideas!! My ideas It’s the usual question that most writers are asked. Where do you get your ideas? Where do I get mine? The answer is there are ideas everywhere. In newspapers, on social media, in everyday life, gossip heard on the bus or at work. My debut, The Summer of Second Chances came from a writing retreat in Cornwall when we were enjoying an excellent plotting workshop with Chris Manby. In a couple of hours the whole thing was plotted out, the hive mind of the group provided the names for my main characters and a working title and the structure of the plotting grid meant that I knew for the first time where events needed to take place in order to move the story forward. That didn’t mean the plot couldn’t change, it just gave a structure that kept me writing. My second book A Year of New Adventures was the result of a ‘what […]

Blog Tour / Guest Post: “So what’s your favourite city in the whole world?” by Claudia Carroll, author of Our Little Secret

Posted February 18, 2018 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments

So today, I’m super excited to have on the blog the incredible Claudia Carroll, author of Our Little Secret talking about her favourite city in the whole world. Claudia’s Words: So what’s your favourite city in the whole world? Without a doubt, mine is New York City or to be more specific, Manhattan. I first started going there when I was a teenager with my parents; my Dad used to do the NYC marathon and we’d all loyally troop over to support him. Anyway, New York in the dim, distant late 80’s was a very different place to how it is now. It was pre-Giuliani and crime really was rife. I remember our tour group leader even warning us not to wear rings on the street, as if a mugger targeted you, apparently they’d just chop your finger off to get at the ring. Delightful. But in spite of the element of danger hanging over the whole city back then, I still fell in love with the place. The energy, the buzz, that feeling of being right in the epicenter […]

Blog Tour / Guest Post: “Writing Gwendolynn McBride (Or: A man writing a woman’s perspective” by Tyrell Johnson, author of Wolves of Winter

Posted January 6, 2018 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 2 Comments

The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson Published by HQ Fiction on January 11th 2018 Genres: Dystopia, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Pages: 384 Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads A captivating tale of humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, of family and bonds of love forged when everything is lost, and of a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny. This debut novel is written in a post-apocalyptic tradition that spans The Hunger Games and Station Eleven but blazes its own distinctive path. Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn’t help you survive in the endless white wilderness beyond the edges of a fallen world. Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As the memories of her old life continue to haunt, she’s been forced to forge ahead in the snow-drifted Canadian Yukon, learning how to hunt and trap and slaughter. But her fragile existence is about to be shattered. Shadows of the world before have found […]

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