Authors Electric

A group of writers came together with one vision: to build an independent consortium of experienced authors, professional editors and talented designers producing engaging and inspiring books of the highest quality for readers everywhere.  Ruth Leigh , who used to regularly write for Authors Electric, is the sort of friend who always leads me into some new adventure. First, she got me a slot here writing a monthly blog post and more recently she invited me to join Resolute Books. I’ve become a member of this consortium at just the right time, missing the zoom meetings about setting up a constitution and other more mundane stuff but arriving with perfect timing to attend a lavish book launch. Some of the Resolute authors - glasses of fizz in hand! To borrow Ruth’s words from the blog, Resolute Books was conceived at the end of 2022 when “two experienced and multi-published authors came together to talk about a collaboration. They wanted to create a group of like-minded people ...

  Monday evening presented me with the perfect reason for buying more notebooks. As homeschooling my children kept me away from shops, I am still looking for some wonderful ones, although I might have to check my shelf to see if any of my ten spare notebooks will do. They’re spare for a reason, of course, so they might be too nice to be actually used... I have been part of a wonderful group of History Writers for a while, even though my one slightly historical book is a time travelling Viking novella. As soon as I wrote it, just for fun, I realised how interesting the Viking Era was and how interesting research is. Viking Ferry isn’t particularly historically accurate, but as soon as I was done, I started thinking of a Viking series. We live in an interesting house, in a wonderful village. The house was built in 1817, and looking around the village, I wondered what kind of things could have gone wrong in the past. I always wanted to write a murder mystery, so I started looking ...