What is a D list writer? Someone like me. Someone who gets all her books published (none languishing on the hard drive or bottom drawer!) and garners excellent reviews from respected authors and occasionally gets shortlisted for major prizes – and yet, her sales figures remain underwhelming. After her 7th book, her proven unprofitability results […]
Salt publisher re-publishes Rogerson’s collection of short stories in August 2024, including the V.S.Pritchett prize-winning A Dangerous Place. Rogerson has an ability to inhabit all her characters convincingly. She sketches them with just the right amount of detail, chooses just the right aspects to concentrate on. (Scotland on Sunday) A Dangerous Place is an intensely […]
July now, and I decide to return to the work in progress I began years ago. Another memoir, along the lines of Wah! (Things I never told my mother), which was published a few months before the publisher went into liquidation. On good days, I blame Wah’s low sales on this. After all, I tell […]
Love Letters from My Deathbed was re-published by Bloodhound Press July 26th, with a fabulous new cover. It’s available for £1.99 on Kindle (or £9.99 as a paperback) and follows the fortunes and mishaps of two people who love each other but don’t know it. Can awareness of mortality act as an aphrodisiac? A delightfully […]
Wait for Me Jack, written under the pen name Addison Jones, was re-published by Bloodhound in May 2024. It explores a sixty year marriage and what love can mean when it encompasses habitual irritation and occasional bursts of anger. Finding love is easy – making it last, not so easy. Upstanding and astute, this book […]
By June, no agent or publisher has expressed interest. Many have not even acknowledged receiving my email. Is ghosting the new NO THANKS? I am slightly dismayed and surprised, but feel weirdly optimistic anyway. I’ve just missed the zeitgeist, that’s all. My moment for these books has passed or is about to arrive. I wait […]
By the end of May, I was panicking and wondering if I still had an agent. No word back from her after my panicky nudges, casually worded to make it sound like I was not panicking. I even pretended to worry that I’d addressed previous emails incorrectly and just needed confirmation that she’d received them. […]
Finished my new book in March 2024, or finally decided it was time to consider it finished. Never quite certain a book can’t be improved, but life is short. And by book, I mean two books since my writer friend Anne MacLeod pointed out my book was really two books and the kindest thing would […]