So, I used to love writing as a kid. I wrote stories about my dogs (something I think every author does, as a kid. Right?). I wrote stories about my local park’s war memorial actually being a time machine space ship for vampire shapeshifter alien snakes (that old cliché, urgh). But when I was aboutContinue reading “Everything You Believe Is Wrong (or, why I thought I couldn’t be a writer)”
Author Archives: Wren James
Behind the Book: Copyeditor Miranda Baker
Previously in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger | Scout |Translators | Book charity Today I’m talking to Miranda Baker, the copyeditor of The Next Together. Miranda was the person who made sure all of my tangled time travel-y storylines didn’t create any massive plotholes whichContinue reading “Behind the Book: Copyeditor Miranda Baker”
Behind the Book: Book Trust coordinator Katherine Webber
More in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger |Scout |Translators | Book charity | Copyeditor Today I’m talking to my friend Katie, who is not only the loveliest and most energetic person ever (you might have seen her running around at YALC in full Sailor Moon costume,Continue reading “Behind the Book: Book Trust coordinator Katherine Webber”
September favourites | Sense8 | Muji |Neopolitan Novels | Mad Max
Previously: April | May | June | July | August It’s October! Enjoy this final selection of non-autumn/PSL/hallowe’en related things before I inevitably fall for the Fall hype of tumblr this month. TV Series – Sense8 My friend Alice introduced me to this, and I watched the whole series in about two days. Honestly, if you asked me, IContinue reading “September favourites | Sense8 | Muji |Neopolitan Novels | Mad Max”
Writing the dreaded Second Novel
My next novel, THE LAST BEGINNING, is a sequel to THE NEXT TOGETHER, and comes out in Autumn 2016. I never even knew that THE NEXT TOGETHER would have a sequel until I wrote the last chapter. Then I suddenly realised that there was this whole other story I hadn’t told. I couldn’t bear toContinue reading “Writing the dreaded Second Novel”
Behind the Book: Translators Franca Fritz and Heinrich Koop
More in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger |Scout |Translators | Book charity | Copyeditor I have a very exciting interview this week! I’m talking to two of the foreign translators of The Next Together! Franca and Hein are a married couple who work together to translateContinue reading “Behind the Book: Translators Franca Fritz and Heinrich Koop”
Behind the Book: Scout Natasha Farrant
More in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger |Scout |Translators | Book charity | Copyeditor Today I’m interviewing a scout and author, Natasha Farrant. Scouts always seem very mysterious to me, and the most likely people to really, secretly be spies….so I’m really excited to learn moreContinue reading “Behind the Book: Scout Natasha Farrant”
Behind the Book: Blogger Lucy Powrie
More in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger |Scout |Translators | Book charity | Copyeditor I have an extra special interview today, with the infamous Queen of Contemporary, Lucy “the Reader” Powrie! Lucy is a blogger and vlogger, and is a force to be reckoned with inContinue reading “Behind the Book: Blogger Lucy Powrie”
August favourites! Halsey | Wicked | Sorcerer to the Crown | Wagamama | GBBO
Previously: April | May | June | July I’ve now been an officially published author for ten whole days, which is pretty great. I had a launch and did a few events and ate a lot of cake and drank a lot of sparkling beverages. I also read and watched and listened to some pretty cool stuff! LetContinue reading “August favourites! Halsey | Wicked | Sorcerer to the Crown | Wagamama | GBBO”
Behind the book: Foreign Rights Manager Claudia Medin
More in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger |Scout |Translators | Book charity | Copyeditor I’m back today with another interview with a publishing industry professional. Claudia Medin works at my publishers, Walker Books, as a Foreign Rights Manager. English books are often translated into other languagesContinue reading “Behind the book: Foreign Rights Manager Claudia Medin”
Wren James 