Publication date of my next novel has been brought forward to November 28th – which is great news since I will be attending three book fairs in November and will have copies with me to sell. In fact, although formal release date is not until the end of the month, I expect to have the...
Author: Jude Hayland (Jude Hayland)
Post
CRAFTY WOMEN CRAFT FAIR
On Saturday 7th December I will be at Winchester’s Guildhall with two other local writers – Helen Matthews and Katharine Johnson – on a stall selling our novels. Amidst all the craft items and products and a lot of clever, crafty women, I hope we will be spotted and that people will come over and...
Post
COVER REVEAL!
Finally, I can reveal the chosen cover for my next novel, THE LEGACY OF MR JARVIS. It’s taken quite a while to come up with something that felt right and reflected the content and tone of the novel appropriately. It is very easy to point out what is wrong and why an image fails to...
Post
AUTUMN BOOK FAIRS
November is proving to be a busy month – two book fairs just six days away from each other! On Sunday 17th November, I will be in Henley in Arden – the heart of Warwickshire – at their book fair for independent writers. Henley in Arden seems to be a very vibrant arts-orientated place: it...
Post
78 DERNGATE
Sometimes, carrying out research for a novel seems the best part of writing! My third novel which is set in London concerns three main characters who all move into flats in a converted Edwardian house. One of these three protagonists is a woman called Catherine Wells who works in a small museum in Clerkenwell. The...
Post
CHILTERN VOICE!
On Monday 4th November, I will be a guest on CHILTERN VOICE FM’s morning programme about all things books! Antonia Honeywell is the presenter of this weekly programme which runs from 10.00 am until noon and I am so looking forward to meeting her, talking about reading, writing, authors, stories et al – and choosing...
Post
TALKING ABOUT NOVELS …
The other day, I was talking to someone about a recent discussion that had taken place at her book group. The novel under discussion was written about 20 years ago and was a remarkable success story at the time, going on to launch the writer’s notable literary career. I remember loving it when I read...
Post
A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words …
…which is why getting the cover right for a book is so important. It is, after all, the very first hook for a potential reader or, alternatively, an immediate sign that the contents is of absolutely no interest to them. When I published my first novel, ‘Counting the Ways,’ the few sketchy ideas that I...
Post
PODCAST
At the Self-Publishing conference in late April, I was interviewed by MATADOR – my publishers – about aspects of writing my novel, COUNTING THE WAYS and about the use of social media as a marketing tool. I finished writing that novel early in 2016, publishing it the following year, and since then have fully re-drafted...
Post
Long Summer Days and Re-Reading …
There are simply too many books to read; too many I have always meant to read and am ashamed that I haven’t (Vanity Fair heads that list and all of Trollope …) let alone the number appearing weekly that are there on my mental list to catch up with one day. Yet for the past...