by Nikki Vallance | Apr 20, 2018 | The Spine is Mine |
Making the Most of the London Book Fair – A Writers View Each year at the London Book Fair, the world of publishing convenes at Kensington Olympia. Every available exhibition space, from the Grand Hall to the Club Room, is crammed full of industry professionals and...
by Nikki Vallance | Feb 28, 2018 | The Spine is Mine |
Creative Inspiration in a Cemetery On a crisp winter afternoon in late February we drive through the gates to Foster Hill Road Cemetery, a little late for our appointment. A well known mapping tool under-estimated our journey time by about ten minutes, eating into the...
by Nikki Vallance | Feb 23, 2018 | The Writers' Pod |
Hands up if you are trying to make it as a writer. Is 2018 going to be the year where you pick up that pen or open that blank document and start? Being a writer and making a living from your passion are not necessarily the same goal. With my first novel under my belt...
by Nikki Vallance | May 15, 2017 | The Spine is Mine |
Part Two: From Concept to Completion If you read Part One of my writing story and you are waiting to hear about my first novel and its inception, please bear with me. I promise to get to it very soon, but first I want to go back a good few years to give you a little...
by Nikki Vallance | Mar 9, 2017 | The Spine is Mine |
They say a good writer should also be a good reader, so I suppose I must have been off to a good start when I had already learnt to read before beginning school. In those days Ladybird books, in the Peter and Jane series were the bread and butter for early readers. On...
