The Book Specialist Blog

The Good Daughter: review

An Act of Silence: blog tour and review

The Beat on Ruby’s Street: review

Blood Sisters: review

All the Good Things: blog tour and review

What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday: review

Two Nights: review

In the Name of Love: review

The Lion Inside: review

Leopard at the Door: blog tour review

The New Mrs Clifton: review

Tilly and the Time Machine: review

A Talent for Murder: review

I’m Still Here: review

You Don’t Know Me: review

Hamlet: Globe to Globe: review

Lost for Words: review

Stargazing for Beginners: review

Win ‘Scone with the Wind’: a literary cookbook

Myths of PR: review

The Lonely City: review

Fire Damage: review

Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life: review

I Found You: review

Goodnight Already: review

Stand Firm: review

We Come Apart: review

The Wicked City: review

I Can Only Draw Worms: review

The Owl at the Window: review

The Chalk Pit: review

Midwinter’s Eve Giveaway Hop

Must-Have Quality for Authors #4: Realistic expectations

Authors, repeat after me: I WILL enjoy writing

Revisiting beloved childhood books

Book giveaway: stories inspired by Jane Eyre

WIN JK Rowling’s new Fantastic Beasts book in the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop

Ten reasons indie authors rock #PoweredByIndie

Win a Ransom Riggs novel in the Books to Movies giveaway hop

Giving yourself the ‘Freedom’ to write

Must-have quality for authors #3: Commitment

Respecting authors for their creative endeavours

Must-have quality for authors #2: Talent

Must-have quality for authors #1: Professionalism

Ship your book – and leave it at sea

How to submit to a book editor

A salute to writers