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FALLING IN LOVE
Valentine’s Day is synonymous with falling in love, and who doesn’t remember the first time they fell head-over-heels in love with their first book?
As with the best love stories, most of us never see it coming. One minute, the dull rectangular objects filled with laborious words are viewed as ornaments to decorate the shelves of pseudo intellects and libraries. The next, our mind is blown as we try desprately to make up for …
The closer we get to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the more excited the world becomes – and rightly so. It’s undoubtedly the greatest sporting spectacle on earth and it therefore never fails to provide unparalleled entertainment, but with less than two months before the opening ceremony, some say there couldn’t be a worse time for Brazil to play hosts.
The amount of money that goes into an Olympic bid is eye-watering, and the …
I found it quite interesting to recently learn that James Patterson doesn’t actually write all his own books, and the discovery led me to wonder how his fans actually felt about it.
In a recent blog, I highlighted a number of reasons why a writer may wish to use a pseudonym, but to optimise financial gain by allowing multiple authors to write under one umbrella wasn’t one of them, so I thought I’d try and add …
PWM: Where did the inspiration for Dragon Speaker come from?
ELANA: I started writing Dragon Speaker on the day I turned 14. I was a socially awkward kid, just a little too weird to fit in, and I had an existential crisis on my birthday – or at least, as existential a crisis as a teenage girl can have. “Who am I?” I wondered. “Where is my life headed? What sort of person am I going …
PWM: What made you write The Moors?
JODY: It’s a tough question to answer because it’s one of the very first things I wrote, and why does anyone work on that first project? I was studying at the time. I adored films, but the film studies course I was on was incredibly limited and with too much theory for my liking – so I wrote The Moors as a screenplay.
The book started as a screenplay?
Yes, it …
We are absolutely delighted to confirm the signing of our first fantasy novel, written by American author, Elana Mugdan.
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Right after Jody read the prologue to his debut novel, The Moors, he sat down and took a selection of questions from somebody who knows him incredibly well, his older sister, before taking further questions from the audience.
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On Monday 22nd June 2015, Jody was invited onto radio talk show Baggy’s Book Club to discuss the forthcoming release of The Moors.
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It is with great excitement that we are finally able to release details of our launch party, where we will be celebrating the release of our first paperback novel, The Moors!
The launch will take place at Barnstaple Library, Tuly Street, EX31 1EL and the outline of the event is as follows:
6:30pm: Meet and greet
6:45pm: Jody Medland to read the prologue of The Moors
7:00pm: Q&A about the book’s creation
7:20pm: Book signing
Everybody who buys a copy of the …