Today I have the huge pleasure of welcoming Jane Robins, author of White Bodies to the blog to talk about her character Callie. Jane’s book is out now and available to order. One thing that I can promise is that you are in for a treat with this book – the words sinister, twisty and addictive do not do enough to explain this book. Read it if you dare. Today Jane is talking about Callie, the frist character she created for White Bodies. Read below to find out more – I promise there are no spoilers. Callie Callie, the narrator of White Bodies, is the first fictional character that I’ve created. I knew I wanted her to be a little strange, a little naïve – but ultimately a good and trustworthy young woman. But that’s all I had – and a mere collection of characteristics doesn’t necessarily amount to a properly realised character that readers will feel is a ‘real person’, and I felt a little lost. She hadn’t become fully formed in my head, so how could I make […]

Today I am delighted to introduce Anna Bell, author of It Started with a Tweet to the blog. As part of the blog tour, Anna is going to talk about how she gets down to the sense of place that is crucial for a book setting. A Sense of Place: When writing a novel, choosing where it’s set can be a crucial decision as often it can have a big impact on the plot. In some cases the location can be so integral to the story that it’s almost like one of the characters – think of Wuthering Heights and it’s setting on the Yorkshire Moors or imagine Bridget Jones not being set in London. I usually set my novels in unremarkable suburban locations with the intention of showing how my story could happen to anyone. Yet right from the beginning with my latest novel, It Started With a Tweet, I knew that the setting would play a key role in the story. The concept of the novel was that the main character Daisy was forced to do a digital […]