Pen & Sword – Words Worth Writing

24 May 2022

Book Review: Pirate Queens

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Pirate Queens by Rebecca Alexandra Simon Many thanks to both NetGalley and to Pen & Sword for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Pirate Queens: the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Pirates have always been close to my heart, and I do love to read books about them –...

book review

7 June 2021

Pumping up the busy

Image by David Bruyland from Pixabay Phew! This one’s a long read. I’d go and get a coffee if I were you… I’m back at work today, after a week’s holiday and a week of part-time working/recovery before that. I had a lot of time to think about how I want to take my work forward, and I think I’ve...

writer at work

9 April 2021

Moving back to KDP – for now

As we inch ever-closer to the 1,000 followers mark, so too do we get closer to the competition to win a bumper pack of all of my published paperbacks, including the two books from Pen & Sword. Oh yes, and chocolate … This means that, alongside everything else that I do, I’ve been checking that all the paperbacks are there....

writer at work

1 March 2019

More lovely publicity

The Cadbury book has certainly stirred up some interest. Not only did I get a photo-splash in the Daily Mail, but after I posted last time, the Daily Telegraph also featured the book! I am absolutely over the moon. See the Daily Mail feature here. See the Daily Telegraph feature here. There are others popping up too, all over the...

writer at work

21 February 2019

Timing

I was feeling overwhelmed last week, and started to steadily work through my outstanding piles of work. One of the jobs I did was send out a book proposal on Friday. I already knew the publisher was interested in the topic because we had discussed it, and others, a few weeks ago. But they’d asked for two book proposals in...

writer at work

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Tag: Pen & Sword

Book Review: Pirate Queens

Pumping up the busy

Moving back to KDP – for now

More lovely publicity

Timing