You can find out more  here .            March has arrived and spring beckons- thankfully. I may get rid of my lingering cold t...

It's that time of year when the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award shortlist is revealed. Of course the extracts in...

East Midlands writers heard from Darren Hardy, manager of the KDP UK (kindle direct publishing) at an event organised via the Society of Aut...

It's the last day of the month and as of 4.30 am (BST) this morning, my submission to the RNA's New Writers' Scheme went in. N...

Now I know that authors who are traditionally published have no say on what price the e-book of their novels is sold at. Of course there wil...

Today I'm delighted to be welcoming journalist, author and writing tutor Alex Gazzola to Carol's Corner to answer a few questions o...

I can now reveal that my fun weekend (mentioned in my last blog post) was at the 2018 Romantic Novelists Conference at Leeds Trinity Univers...

Authors earnings have been in the news this week with the initial results of the 2017 ALCS Authors Earnings Survey. There's more det...

It was my Wednesday evening out at the Writers' Club last night (that was the 9th, if you' re reading this at the weekend). The g...

After weeks of hard non-writing work, it was lovely to go out to a local literary event, a book launch. In Nottingham the Waterstones bran...

A gem of a book... Not long to go has a few meanings. Christmas is of course fast approaching, and this coming Wednesday it's Awa...

Around this time in November the shortlist for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award is announced. The Award  was established by Auberon Waugh, the...

Life has been a little chaotic in the last month, so getting away from the stresses has been a much needed break. A couple of weeks ago it...

The great thing about writers is that they are not only fun friends to have, but they are willing to share their knowledge to new and develo...

If you saw my recent post about the Sci-fi night that was taking place at the writers club I attend, last night (21st), then you might be in...

Now I have to admit that the nearest I've ever gotten to sci-fi is watching Star Trek and it's many incarnations, Stargate - and ver...

I doubt many will have missed the news reports of the devastation left by the 7.8 magnitude  earthquake that hit Nepal last Saturday, result...

Still not quite over the recent late spring bug, but my head is now clear enough to put some thoughts together on the news reports about wri...