Is it ‘a wonderful story of true love’ as the poster suggests? Not my choice of wording, but the phrase suggested by the marketing people who designed it, making use of a review comment, and I suppose they should know what attracts …but so many people look at that and ask me, ‘so do you...
Author: Jude Hayland (Jude Hayland)
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PUBLICATION NEWS!
My next novel, THE LEGACY OF MR JARVIS, is now with my publisher and has an official publication date of 28th January 2020. Copies will, in fact, be available about 2 months before this once they have left the printers and the novel could prove an ideal Christmas present for that troublesome and hard to...
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Author Event – Yeading library – Hillingdon
Bank Holiday Saturday, 4th May, a day of hailstones, strong, gusty winds, intense if fleeting sunlight and something worryingly similar to sleet – yes, definitely a British Bank Holiday Saturday. But also, for me, a day I spent at Yeading library, one of Hillingdon Libraries’ branches, for a unique event. Invited to speak as an...
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SO MANY BOOKS, TOO LITTLE TIME TO READ …
…except when I am at our house in Crete! And then, suddenly, the days seem to offer spare hours when simply reading begins to feel like a pleasurable obligation. So what did I read during my recent visit? John Boyne’s latest novel, LADDER TO THE SKY. I’ve loved all his novels and this was compelling...
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The long route from ALPHA to OMEGA …
At the beginning of April, I spent five days attempting to learn Greek. Or rather, I spent a week trying to begin to be ready to start learning Greek. I think, truly, that was my goal: to break down the sense of total panic and sheer, inhibiting frustration that rose up every time I tried...
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AUTHOR EVENT – YEADING – HILLINGDON LIBRARIES
Saturday 4th May is the independent author event at Yeading library where I am looking forward to meeting readers and, possibly, potential writers to share my experiences of self-publishing and life as an indie writer. I will, of course, be hoping to sell some copies of my novel COUNTING THE WAYS and leaving one with...
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Flash Fiction Short List!
I have only just caught up with the fact that a swift piece of flash fiction I wrote at the end of last year was on the short list for the FLASH 500 competition. The judge’s report on the competition entries reads as follows: The standard of the final twenty-five stories on the shortlist was...
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LEARNING GREEK … or trying to
Of course, everyone says there’s no need. Why bother? people say. Surely everyone in Crete speaks English. And yes, most people have either an impressive, very fluent command of English or can at least get by. Only the very elderly have little or no grasp. Walk into any shop in any small town, city or...
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ARNOLD BENNETT
I am currently re-reading Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett. I first read this when I was a student studying for an English Literature degree and Bennett was required reading and the starting point for our Modern Fiction course – we didn’t call them modules in those days! I loved his writing then and read everything he...
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‘Counting the Ways’ gets around!
Good to see my novel amongst such excellent company – sent from a reader in the south of France!