The Guest Lounge

The Authors Electric blog has been running since 2011. At the end of each month we have hosted guests of all kinds, from traditionally published and award-winning authors to Kindle debuts. Some of those authors joined us and now blog with us monthly.

If you have experience of indie publishing and would like to be considered for a guest post on our blog, please contact Debbie on admin AT authorselectric.co.uk (replace AT by @). Your post can be about anything connected with books or the literary world in general. Advice and how-to articles welcome! Feel free to mention and add links to your books, however your post should have some substance and not be merely a sales pitch. See this post about guest blogging by Lynne Garner: Tips For How To Be The Best Guest Blogger

You can read some of our past guest posts by following the links below.

2011

Stephen Livingston: How I came to publish for Kindle

Xavier Leret: Heaven Sent and finding a publisher

Victoria Connelly: Flights of Angels

Sara Sheridan: My Kindle Adventures

Bob Mayer: The New York Times bestselling author on evaluating yourself as a writer

Marianne Wheelaghan: Throwin' away leg

Mary Nichols: Over 50 novels published in the traditional way

2012

Lee McAulay: Where Will You Be in Ten Years' Time?

Pam Howes: Conversations With My Characters

Lee Lowe: Confessions of a Compleat Non-Professional

Terri Giuliano Long: 7 Mistakes I Won’t Make Again

Kate Allan: Why I'm not rushing to self-publish again

Dougie Brimson: Why reviews are so important for ebooks

Ann Jungman: The sad death of Barn Owl Books

Rachel Abbott: Marketing your way to Number One

Phyllis Burton: Damsels in Distress

Sam Stone: Fairtrade Books

Griselda Gifford: House of Spies

Zoe Sharp: My first indie ebook

Chris Rakunas: Be faithful to yourself

John Paul Catton: The Voice of the Sword is heard in our land

Laura Solomon: The Long Walk Home

Die Booth: Resolutely writing into the New Year

2013

Jan Ruth: Locations and inspirations

Elizabeth Kay: Travel broadens the pen

Jan Edwards: Anthologising

Elizabeth Jasper: Reflections on a new career

Peter Lihou: The People's Book Awards

Bob Newman: Of Pathya Vats and Pigs - publishing poetry

Louise Hart: The Wordsmith and Me

Prue Batten: Elemental

T A Donnelly: The Confessions of a Zombie Vicar

Ruby Barnes: Snake oil (nobody knows how to sell ebooks)

Sue Purkiss: The Willow Man

David Barry: Never judge a book by its cover (#1)

Katherine Roberts: Singing in Spanish (translating a short story)

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose: E-publishing in India

Susanne O'Leary: That empty feeling when you have published your book.

Gareth Baker: Never judge a book by its cover (#2)

Tim Stevens: About Time

2014

Simon Gould: Under the Influence

Harriet Steel: Interviewed by Debbie Bennett

Jan Ruth: Giving away books

Steve Hannam (Danson Thunderbolt): Captain Square Jaw!

Eric Tomlinson: Why female?

Jessica Smith: Writing, the Devil, and Carl Jung

Louise Wise: Writing a book isn't enough!

Chrystalla Thoma: 99p Boxed Sets - the New Free

Jan Edwards: Rewriting to Rebranding

Katie Salidas: To kill or not to kill, that is the question

Alice Furse: How to find and approach journalists

Anna Bentinck: Should authors be present at an audiobook recording?

Jan Ruth & John Hudspith: The X-Factor Curse

Jan Ruth: The Wisdom of Hindsight

Pippa Goodhart: New beginnings from an old story

Susanne O'Leary: Two writers, one story... co-authoring a book

2015

Eleanor Updale: The family book goes online

Diana Kimpton: Serendipity and green sheep

Mary Cavanagh: An author's life of snakes and ladders

Daniel Burton: Editing? Help is at hand.

Lynne Benton: Starting from scratch

Umberto Tosi: When real and imagined characters meet

Leela Soma: Where are the Asian novelists and poets?

Kristen D Van Risseghem: Don't be afraid

Richard Rapaport: The Great Gorino

Charles O'Keefe: The Newfoundland Vampire

Fran Brady: Where and when do you do your best writing?

Sue Purkiss: Bernard Cornwell and Warrior King (serendipity)

Caroline Akrill: From teen to mean - making the transition

Alison Boyle: The world was different back then

Jan Edwards: A day like any other

Rosalie Warren: Rewriting from the inside out

2016

M A Demers: The line between Reality and Imagination

J S Watts: Pictures within Words

Mary Hoffman: Birth of a Publisher (Greystones Press)

Leslie Wilson: Talking of Witches

Kath Langrish: Seven Miles of Steel Thistles - from blog to book

Dennis Zaslona: Proper writers have an agent

Conrad Jones: 15 and not out

Louise Wise: Another bad book review... yippee!

Seb Kirby: Crime thrillers by male authors with female protagonists

Harriet Steel: What do authors dread most?

Jan Ruth: Snowdon safari

Matt Posner: Squared circle blues

Marie-Louise Jensen: Two years you'll never forget

Bill Kirton: Leader of the Pack

2017

Jean Burnett: The imitation game

Valerie Bird: Writing with writers

Valerie Bird: Starting again

Jennifer Heap: Love 'em or loathe 'em - creating characters

Anna Maria Espsater: It's hard to escape your calling

Karen Kao: Wanderlust

2018

Jacey Bedford: The geography of words

Edwin H Rydberg: Will robots write the next great novel?

2019

Raquel Edwards: Reading to Children

Jonaki Ray: From India to Iceland

Dennis Hamley: Things aren't untrue just because they never happened

2020

Sue Purkiss: New Year, New Cover

2021

Desiree Villena: How Reedsy Can Help You Realise Your Publishing Dreams

Desiree Villena: How Reedsy Discovery Can Benefit Indie Authors

2022 

2023 

2024 

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