Extras
Interview
International bestselling author Rachel Caine talks to Goodreads about her latest release Prince of Shadows, displays her sword skills, wields her favourite Shakespearean insult and shows off her vampire bunny slippers! Check it out.
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Valentine's Day saw Mary Nichols talking about the inspiration behind her latest books Escape by Moonlight and A Different World on the Romantic Novelists' Association Blog. Read it here.
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To celebrate the paperback release of The Wild Girl, we're running a competition for one lucky person and a guest to enjoy a champagne spa day at a top Mayfair hotel.
For those further away from the capital, we're also running champagne spin-off competitions on Facebook and Twitter. Read our blog for the full details on both and how to enter.
https://www.allisonandbusby.com/blog/the-wild-girl-competitions/
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Rachel Caine will be coming to the UK and touring bookshops round the country to meet all her fans from 10th - 20th May 2013 in light of her new book Fall of Night. Here's a full list of where you'll be able to find her!
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Mary-Rose MacColl shares the inspiration behind her novel In Falling Snow – the extraordinary women who set off from Edinburgh to turn an abbey in France into a hospital during the Great War…
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Follow the trail of reviews, guest posts and interviews with Kate Forsyth, author of the captivating novel Bitter Greens which blends history with fairytale in a masterful reinvention of the story of Rapunzel.
https://www.allisonandbusby.com/blog/follow-the-bitter-greens-blog-tour/
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Jamie Ford talks about The Panama Hotel and some other locations that inspired his novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRhDPC1Psl4&context=C33a2021ADOEgsToPDskIT6Xvr84gfcqnCux7HnuZO
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Fans of the Morganville Vampires were invited to ask Rachel Caine questions via Twitter for an hour by Waterstones using hashtag #rcbd (Rachel Caine Black Dawn). Here is the full transcript of the Twinterview as features on the Waterstones Facebook page.
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Anna Jacobs recounts her very first book publication - and how it was accomplished due to the generosity of a certain very famous author.
'When my first author’s copy arrived, dropping through the letterbox in the front door, as letters still do in the UK, I tore the package open on the spot, staring in utter delight at my first published book, stroking my name on the cover. Then I sat on the hall floor, cuddling the book and crying my eyes out – as you do when you’re utterly happy!'
Interview
The Good Book Guide interviews Adrian Magson and reviews the first two books in his acclaimed Lucas Rocco crime series Death on the Marais and Death on the Rive Nord.
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Shots Magazine puts Adrian Magson under the spotlight and asks him about his France-set Lucas Rocco crime series, what he does to relax, what advice does he have for aspiring writers, and more...
http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/interview_view.aspx?interview_id=240
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Following her winning the RT Reviewer's Choice award for The Rose Garden, Susanna Kearsley talks about the book as well as her other novels that have made her the success she is today.
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In an article written especially for Book Oxygen, author D E Meredith exposes the valuable links between experience and writing, revealing some of the dark origins behind her debut Devoured, the first novel in a the Hatton & Roumande series set in Victorian London and featuring one of the first forensic detectives.
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Crime Fiction Lover grills Adrian Magson on why he chose a French setting for his crime series including Death on the Point Noir, how he balances several wiritng projects and what he likes about the 1960s...
http://www.crimefictionlover.com/2012/10/interview-adrian-magson/
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Jaqueline Winspear, author of the acclaimes Maisie Dobbs mystery series, talks to The Lady about how she came up with the idea for her heroine and why she chose to write murder mysteries.
http://www.lady.co.uk/culture/books/1381-how-to-write-a-murder-mystery
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New writers are usually told to write what you know, but here D E Meredith, author of the Hatton and Roumande Victorian Crime series explains On the Literary Sofa why she writes what she doesn't know...
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Strange Alliances interviews D E Meredith about the process of writing her first novel, Devoured, from the orginal idea to publication, her research on the Victorian period and forensics, writing Victorian dialogue and more...
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Ruth Dudley Edwards discusses her satirical crime novel Killing the Emperors and on RTE 1's art show Arena.
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Rachel Caine, author of the bestselling Morganville Vampire series shares her thoughts on Halloween in this Kindle Post.
http://www.kindlepost.co.uk/2011/10/rachel-caine-on-halloween.html
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The Next Big Thing works like a recommendation chain-mail with authors answering the same 10 questions before inviting other authors to do the same thing. Here, Victorian crime-writer D E Meredith talks about her upcoming book The Devil's Ribbon and who she thinks should be The Next Big Thing...
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Glow Magazine discusses Adrian Magson's journey from wannabe writer to published author, and talks to him about his writing regime, the 'best bits' about being an author and his future aspirations.
http://www.glowmagazine.me/fiction-writings-a-marathon-not-a-sprint-interview-with-adrian-magson/