by Nikki Vallance | Aug 3, 2023 | The Creative Switch |
How do you build creative freedom into your working day? You’ll find out one possible way from my guest Sara Nisha Adams, along with the story of how her dream of becoming an author at 16 eventually came true and how, when and why she switched to being a full...
by Nikki Vallance | Apr 24, 2020 | Pivotal, The Spine is Mine |
The People’s Book Prize organisers have extended the voting deadline to 30th May 2020. But what is the People’s Book Prize, why do literary prizes matter to authors and why does your vote matter? The People’s Book Prize There are many literary awards and competitions....
by Nikki Vallance | Feb 25, 2020 | Pivotal, The Spine is Mine |
Sometimes life brings you a reminder of just how short it is and what’s really important. Sometimes the thing you were striving for one day seems the most trivial and unimportant thing the next. Before becoming an author, I was fortunate enough to have found two...
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...
