by Marg Roberts | Jan 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Quite a few writers I know, begin each day by writing. Roselle Angwin suggests 100 words. I like that idea because it’s not over-ambitious. There aren’t many mornings when I can’t manage that. If I’m stuck, I can write a list of gripes, the...
by Marg Roberts | Dec 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
There are times when I can’t write, so I go for a walk. Here are photos taken on a walk round Batsford Arboretum one Sunday in November. They’re interspersed with quotations I like. ‘When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you...
by Marg Roberts | Nov 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the responsibilities of a writer is marketing the novel. Because I am unknown in the published world, I need to talk to strangers – not initially about A Time for Peace, perhaps never- but to open up a conversation which allows the possibility that...
by Marg Roberts | Nov 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
During WW1, Serbia lost 25% of its mobilised soldiers- that is, 57% of its male population. France lost 16.8%, British Empire 16%, Germany 15.4%, Russia 11.5% (it withdrew from the fighting in October 1917) and Italy 10.3%. Austro-Hungary, Romania Turkey, USA,...
by Marg Roberts | Oct 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Time for Peace was launched one year ago on 18th October, thanks to Jan Fortune and her son, Rowan, who read an initial draft and saw the novel’s potential. I’m also grateful to all those who’ve bought it and read it. Fingers crossed that during...
by Marg Roberts | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Rather to my surprise Judy Brook, owner of Kenilworth Books told me that it’s variety that makes the job interesting. I’d assumed a passion for books and the sort of hard-work/risk taking genes of those who run an independent business were the main...
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