This month, in the ORION READING ROOM, we invite you to discover MAEVE BINCHY'S TOP 10 TIPS FOR WRITERS, win a visit to your Reading Group from KATE MOSSE and read some fascinating INSIDE STORIES.
“I’m delighted Sepulchre is in the Reading Room for May, not least because it’s one of my favourite parts of the Orion website, the perfect place to find out about old favourites and new discoveries. As for Sepulchre, it is partly an old-fashioned ghost story, partly a 19th century tale of revenge and the occult, partly the adventures of a young and impressionable girl who disappears one Halloween more than a hundred years ago. Try the Reading Room Discussion Points, listen to the audio (CD, MP3 or download), then please get in touch to tell me what you think! After all, without readers, none of us would be in business!”
Do you have ambitions to write fiction? Who better to offer advice on how to proceed than bestselling novelist Maeve Binchy?
Most importantly WRITE! If you want to be a writer, you have to write. So you must find the time. Whether that entails getting up an hour earlier, going to bed an hour later or forgoing a couple of nights TV, set yourself a goal each week and stick to it. Whether its ten pages a week or 200 words a day, stick to it.
READ MAEVE'S TEN TOP TIPS FOR BUDDING WRITERS (this article originally appeared in newBooks Magazine Issue 45)
Former midwife Jennifer Worth recalls her days working in the East End of London.
Worth is indeed a natural storyteller... gripping, moving and convincing from beginning to end a powerful evocation of a long-gone world Literary Review
READ ARTICLE (this article originally appeared in newBooks Magazine Issue 44)
James Lee Burke
Kate Mosse
Maya Slater
Valerie Martin
Marcus Sedgewick
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Anthony Keates, Marketing and Publicity Director at Orion Paperbacks, examines the steps taken to turn a bestselling hardback novel into a bestselling paperback. READ ARTICLE (this article originally appeared in newBooks Magazine Issue 42)
Sheila Ferguson reports on an exhibition celebrating one of Scotlands most successful and popular literary creations and his author too, of course . . . READ ARTICLE (this article originally appeared in newBooks Magazine Issue 43)
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Books that generate discussion, debate and some arguments! All of these paperback editions are published with extensive reading group notes. FIND OUT MORE
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