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The thing about The Big Book.
I’ll never forget the evening before publication of Just In Case, when the lovely Tracy Chevalier (Girl With A Pearl Earring) told me that every book I wrote after The Big Book would sell at least 15% less than the previous one. I was horrified and appalled. How little I knew. Nowadays, the thought of selling [...]
A few more words on casting.
I’d only worked in advertising a couple of years before I moved to London, but during that period I wrote tons of radio commercials. Not yer newfangled “BUY THIS! BUY THAT! IT’S GREAT IT’S CHEAP!” kinda radio commercials, but subtle, sophisticated, funny, monologue-y, wordy ads that were so witty and brilliant that no one ever [...]
The Bride’s Farewell, Now Available in Blonde.
Oh dear. Forgot to mention that I have a new paperback out — and isn’t that just typical? I mean, aren’t we all supposed to be ruthlessly flogging our books? Isn’t that why we blog? I dunno. Too many years in advertising for me to worry about sales sales sales. But it is NEW AND [...]
Dear Ms Peyton,
May I call you Kathleen? In my head you will always be KM. I discovered you first through the TV series of Flambards, back in the early 80s. I’d recently moved back to NYC from London, and missed everything about England. Flambards had all that I longed for in a drama — the countryside, the [...]
Judging books by their covers
Having spent fifteen brief years in advertising, I should know a thing or two about graphic design. In fact, I always thought I had a fairly good eye for design — or at least knew precisely what I liked and what I didn’t. No more. Five years as a writer has completely scrambled my brain [...]
“You should have been a librarian…”
Or at least that’s what the lovely Marilyn Brocklehurst told me on Thursday, after I’d revealed to a roomful of nice kids at Bishops Stortford College that it took me the greater part of twenty five years to settle on a career I liked. I have to admit that being a librarian never occurred to [...]
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