Jane Davis's Blog, page 27
April 22, 2015
Meet the author: Molly Gambiza
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Molly Gambiza to my blog. As a young girl in Uganda, Molly knew she wanted to see the world so, when an opportunity arose to work as a nanny in England, she jumped at the chance. She arrived in the United Kingdom speaking only a little English and taught herself...
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April 14, 2015
Triskele Books launch their brand new boxset
Recently I have collaborated with six other authors to produce a seven-novel limited edition boxset, Outside the Box: Women Writing Women. Two months into the three months of its availability, I was keen to catch up with Triskele Books and compare notes about their new release, A Time & A Place Boxset: Boxset from Triskele Books....
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Meet the Author: Sharon Black
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Sharon Black to my blog. Sharon grew up in Dublin. She studied history and politics at University College Dublin and then did post-graduate in journalism at Dublin City University. She has worked for national newspapers, including The Evening Herald and The Irish Examiner. She had short stories published in U...
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April 9, 2015
Author interview: J. W. Ironmonger
This is a very different type of interview for me. It is the first time that I have approached an author as a fan. I was absolutely delighted when J. W. Ironmonger replied and agreed to be featured on my blog. The Coincidence Authority is the first novel that I have read for some time...
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April 7, 2015
Meet the author: Sue Barnard
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Sue Barnard to my blog. Sue was born in North Wales but has spent most of her life in and around Manchester. After graduating from Durham University, where she studied French and Italian, Sue got married then had a variety of office jobs before becoming a full-time parent. If she...
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March 31, 2015
Meet the Author: Nathan Roten
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Nathan Roten to my blog. Nathan grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, where he says he spent hours on end acting out the epic scenes playing in the theatre in his head. Knowing that he had to eventually grow up, he attended Appalachian State University, and moved on...
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March 17, 2015
It’s Complicated: An Exploration of the Mother Daughter Relationship in Fiction
As much by accident as design, the mother-daughter relationship takes centre stage in several of my novels. I tackled it first in Half-truths and White Lies, where my main character Andrea only discovered the truth about her mother after it was too late to ask any questions. In my novel An Unchoreographed Life, the relationship...
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March 10, 2015
Independent Bookshop Opens Doors to Independent Authors
Foyles on London’s Charing Cross Road, is playing host to The Indie Author Fair (IAF) on Friday 17th April 2015. Part of the London Book Fair Indie Author Fringe Festival, run by The Alliance of Independent Authors/Indie ReCon, the fair is organised by Triskele Books. After the success of IAF 2014 at Chorleywood Literary Festival,...
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March 9, 2015
Author Interview: Meet Kristin Gleeson
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Kristin Gleeson to my blog. Originally from Philadelphia, Kristin is married to a Cornishman and lives in the West Cork Gaeltacht of Ireland, where she teaches art classes, plays harp, sings in an Irish choir and runs two book clubs for the village library. She holds a Masters in Library...
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March 3, 2015
Fat Nude Writing
Born into a family gospel/ bluegrass band, Joni grew up on stage, opening for huge-haired, sequin-bedazzled country-western legends of the 1960s. She has always loved setting words in rows and started seriously writing in the 1980s while living on a fire tower in California’s Trinity Wilderness with her husband. She kept writing for the love of it as...
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