Publication day

It’s publication day for The Companion! I am now officially a published author and Billy and Anna’s story is out in the world. I will be celebrating later with rhubarb gin and prosecco cocktails. Yesterday I had a lovely trip to London. I signed 50 copies of The Companion at Goldsboro Books, who specialise in […]

The Launch!

‘The Companion’ was launched last night in the chapel at the wonderful Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge.  With the help of family and friends the room was decorated with bunting, vintage tablecloths and china and posies of flowers in jam jars. The soundtrack to the 2004 film De-Lovely completed what I hoped was an evocation […]

I met my book!

So, on Saturday I met my book! Like many moments on my journey to publication it wasn’t quite how I had imagined it. I thought it would be a private moment at home, when a parcel arrived from my publisher. But on Saturday morning I left the house before the postman, and the parcel arrived. […]