Ever wanted to see your name in print, forever immortalised in writing? Do you want to be a named character in a book who I will most likely kill off in some gnarly, gory fashion? (Full disclosure – some of my characters have been known to die.) Well, I’m offering one person the chance to have a […]
(A monthly Read Along book group for those who want to explore science fiction written by women.) I participated in a panel event at the Women of the World festival in London with the title Do Women Dream of a Different Future: Women and Science Fiction and it didn’t take much research to find that […]
A round-up of a few of the events I’ve been going to over the past few months, from book launch parties to signings, reading groups, author panels, radio guest spots, and all that good stuff. (For upcoming events, please check out my Events page.) January Launch of Defender Birmingham Waterstone’s Thursday 12th January. I had […]
I wrote five very interesting posts for the DEFENDER Launch Blog Tour this January, so I thought I’d put handy links to each one I did. (I really thought this would only take me 30mins to do. NINETY MINUTES LATER…) My Favourite TV Shows of 2016 (Link broken. Sorry) (Hosted by my bro @girlvsbooks) Highlights […]
It’s December, which means, for the first time ever, my book is available across the UK to buy and read. It’s kind of a pre-release release, and guess what? It’s arrived in time for Christmas shopping! Wondering what to get Grandpa Joe? Get him DEFENDER, a rip-roaring adventure of daring-do and gung-ho action! Oh, what […]
My eldest niece, Isabelle, has been bugging me for ages, wanting to be in a YouTube video, so she and her sister, Scarlett, join me for today’s WiC’s carpool. In this episode, we offer our film verdict on Finding Dory, buy two Mashem Finding Dory toys, play #SaturdayBookSave, and try and get my mom to […]
Make sure you visit Polly’s blog here for the whole journey and more wonderful stories and pictures like these. Polly’s second novel, Where Monsters Lie, is out 7th July 2016. DA ChildrenR… Source: What Makes Libraries Special?
I was tasked with making a simple, 2 minute book promo video for my publishers so they could send it to colleagues in Australia and New Zealand. I emailed through the finished version late last night, but here is the journey it took to getting something even vaguely useable. (Note: my book, DEFENDER, is great. […]
The first vlog from half of the Writers in Cars team (the new podcast of which can be heard here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/8786734/writers-in-cars-episode-one-how-we-got-o). This is an introduction to me (Gemma, in case you forgot which blog you were reading 🙂 ) and why I’m embarking on a new vlog journey when I have no real idea what […]
I had a discussion the other day with some fellow writers about how we all felt about writing. Did we see it as a profound and worthy endeavour? Did we see it as a bit of fun, a hobby? Where did we place it in terms of importance in our lives? I found that I […]
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