Launch Party part 2

3rd June, 2010 11am First reviews just come in – hurrah! Looks like the weather is a good augury after all. A nice mention in Good Housekeeping, and an even nicer one in London’s Stylist: “No one writes historical fiction more evocatively than Hickman…… The Pindar Diamond will keep you utterly entranced.” So, not a [...]

Hay on Wye

Ist June, 2010 Hay on Wye That’s it then. One more year, one more Guardian/Hay-on-Wye festival. I don’t think there’s more fun to be had anywhere else on this planet than in this one small and muddy green field in Herefordshire. Love doing my event – always do at Hay which always has a great [...]

yoga breath

Thursday 28th May, 2010 Exactly a week to go until the launch. This is probably the worst part of publishing a book – the part when nothing seems to be happening, the calm before the storm (or so you hope) of reviews, events, lectures, the book finally appearing in the shops. One of my events [...]

Paul Pindar

20th May, 2010 Two weeks to go till the launch. My husband woke up this morning and said that he had a dream last night in which he had written a novel with a character in it called Paul Pindar. How odd, I’ve been dreaming a lot recently about the new novel, it must be [...]

Wading through Mud

Monday, May 17th, 2010 Exactly three weeks to go until the official publication of ‘The Pindar Diamond’ (June 7th). Only two and a half to the launch….. The place I thought I’d be able to get all the wine from has let me down, so today I’ll have to find somewhere else to get it. [...]

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