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This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Much to my surprise I recently found myself in a TARDIS. Not the TARDIS, sadly. As a child I very much wanted to spend time in the TARDIS, a wish which was revived around about the same time that the hyperactive, fast-talking, feline-featured Scot David Tennant took up residence. But, as I say, its wasn’t ‘the’...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Recently I was asked if I planned to write a sequel to DTE, as I think of the novel these days. ‘Well,’ I said, thoughtfully. ‘No.’ I was lying, of course. A few years ago, when I was plotting, not writing, I envisaged not so much a sequel but a suite, a sequence of novels. A movement...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Last week I did what no unknown first time novelist should do. I went through a bookshop. The week my book was released. I didn’t actually go into the bookshop you’ll have noticed, only through. Although that was enough. The reason I committed this grave error of judgement was that I needed groceries and...
An unexpected email arrived last week. It was short, and full of exclamation marks. Before you ask, it wasn’t one offering me the opportunity to enlarge an appendage I don’t have, and which, coincidentally I wrote about in the blog that led to the unexpected email. Nestled amongst the punctuation, there were a few words. The gist of them was this: ‘When I saw you at Christmas...
Airlie Lawson has worked in many different roles in publishing houses across the globe. Don't Tell Eve is her first novel. She currently lives in Sydney and occasionally blogs at www.airlielawson.com
