Tag Archives: romances

Writer’s holiday?

Posted on July 1, 2017 by hcannam

A busman’s holiday is one that involves doing the same thing that you do at work. Maybe writers are a bit like busmen—however hard they try they can never really leave that essential part of themselves behind. We’d had a … Continue reading →

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A very good review?

Posted on April 21, 2016 by hcannam

Every author loves a good review. We all wish that every one of the readers of our books would give us at least 3 stars and say something nice about our writing. Apart from anything else, good reviews on Amazon … Continue reading →

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We are what we wear?

Posted on July 13, 2015 by hcannam

‘Mabels’, they used to be called, at least when (as Caroline Martin) I was being published by Mills and Boon back in the late 70s/early 80s. That stood for ‘Mills and Boon in a Long Skirt’, which was the publishers’ … Continue reading →

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The critical self-publisher?

Posted on January 5, 2015 by hcannam

Does self-publishing make one more critical of one’s own writing? Or is that something that inevitably comes with age and experience? Maybe it’s simply that most of the books I’ve recently self-published were written long ago (and formerly published by … Continue reading →

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Boxed sets.

Posted on November 14, 2014 by hcannam

I’ve just launched two ‘boxed sets’ on Kindle. That was another technical challenge, especially trying to get the table of contents to link to three books rather than just one. But I got there in the end. This time, I … Continue reading →

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Juvenilia

Posted on December 9, 2013 by hcannam

I was coming up to fourteen at the time, I think. A good friend and I fancied ourselves as a writers. So we set ourselves a challenge: we would each write a story, of which only the title was decided. … Continue reading →

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