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‘The Migrant’ by Paul Alkazraji

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It’s always exciting to be involved in a blog tour for another fiction author, particularly when it gives me the spur to read something outside of my usual genre and to link up with authors and bloggers who want to help another writer with their book promotion. It reminds me of the excitement of a new project and the way people’s hearts, minds and spirits can be touched by fiction, particularly if the author is a Christian who wants to incorporate Christian characters and themes in their work. Therefore, I’m delighted to introduce you to Paul Alkazraji, author of The Migrant, a thriller published by Instant Apostle in February this year.

The Migrant is the story of Alban, a young man running away from a difficult situation in Albania in search of a better life in Greece. There’s plenty of drama and action right from the start. We follow Alban as he dodges the Greek border guards and makes his way to the big city lights of Athens, dreaming of a good job, not realising he risks being groomed by a criminal gang into a life of corruption.

To keep the reader engrossed in the story, Paul switches point of view at several key moments. We also meet Jude, the English literature graduate who now pastors the church in Albania to which Alban had belonged. He sets out in search of Alban with a couple of unlikely companions:  Mehmed, a recently converted people-trafficker, and Alban’s Uncle Luan, a non-believing police officer. Battling their own inner demons and each other, this mismatched trio faces a succession of setbacks and perils along the way. We are also allowed inside the mind of a corrupt and violent police officer, Donis, whose loyalties are tested when he is asked to infiltrate the fascist gang he secretly supports.

My first impression on reading ‘The Migrant’ was that it was not your usual run-of-the-mill thriller, heavy on plot and violence and light on characterisation and description. Instead, the story is unexpectedly grounded in a sense of time and place. The descriptions of the landscapes and cityscapes are particularly evocative. I really did feel as though I were entering a different world – the hallmark of a good writer. It made me realise how many good things I take for granted in my own life and how tough it can be to be born into a country such as Albania.

Much of the action takes place in post credit crunch Greece and for both countries it’s a time of austerity. There are tensions between the people of Greece and the European Union. This, together with an immigration crisis fuelled in part by the Syrian civil war, has provided the perfect conditions for the rise of criminal gangs and far right nationalists. Austerity, nationalism, immigration, tensions with the EU. Does this sound familiar? I wonder whether the author could have known when writing this book how deeply these themes would resonate for a reader living in a United Kingdom in the grip of Brexit.

This is not a political book, however. It is a book about people who put their own lives in danger to rescue someone they care about. Jude’s Christian faith is lived out through his actions. Although a peaceful man and a loving husband to his newly pregnant wife, he makes the difficult decision to enter Greece illegally to rescue a ‘lost sheep’. Ultimately it’s a story of redemption, although the forces of evil are frustrated rather than eradicated. I sense a sequel in the making!

It was no surprise to discover that the author, having started out as a writer and journalist in the UK, has lived and worked with the church in Albania for the last fifteen years.  In fact, looking at some of the author photos which have been provided for this blog tour, I can well imagine him inhabiting the same exciting and dangerous world as Alban, Jude, Mehmed and Luan.

Paul himself says, ‘I wrote it to take the reader on an adventurous road trip into the danger of real events that have happened and are still happening now. I made the journey down through Greece myself in an old Mercedes car to experience the sights and sounds of the country so I could evoke a keen sense of time and place as a backdrop. I have worked for some years with the local church in Albania and seen first-hand the struggles and risks many Albanians face to escape poverty and unemployment and find work abroad. It is, in a way, their story I am telling. I have seen Christians take loving risks to reach and help them too, and have also seen Albanians find new hope, real hope, that lasts. There are important truths I hope to have illustrated in the story, from Scripture and from my own first-hand experiences in Albania and Greece.’

In a world where so much Christian fiction is aimed at a female audience, it is refreshing to read a book with muscular characters – both literally and spiritually – who are not afraid to take risks and tackle evil head on. With its tight plotting, strong characterisation and emphasis on personal relationships, however, this book should appeal to men and women alike, as well as to people of faith and those who are still searching for ultimate answers.

 

Author Bio

Paul Alkazraji worked as a freelance journalist in the UK from the mid-nineties. His was published in Christianity Magazine, The Christian Herald, The Church Times and The Baptist Times among other publications, and his travel articles were also published in The Independent.

Paul’s first book Love Changes Everything, a collection of seven testimonies, was published by Scripture Union in 2001, and his second, Heart of a Hooligan, a biography of ex-football hooligan Dave Jeal, was published by Highland Books in 2000. His third book Christ and the Kalashnikov, a biography of missionaries Ian and Caralee Loring, was published by Harper Collins in 2001. The Silencer, a thriller set in Albania, Greece and Turkey, was published by Highland Books in 2012. Paul has lived and worked with the church in Albania for fifteen years.

You can follow Paul on Twitter: @paul_alkazraji

 

 

The Migrant by Paul Alkazraji (ISBN: 9781909728981) is published by Instant Apostle and is available from Christian bookshops, bookstores and online retailers. Fiction, 272pp, £8.99.

 

A God’s-Eye View

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I’m delighted to welcome to my blog today textile artist Elisabeth Rutt. Elisabeth’s piece entitled ‘I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the fields is mine: Psalm 50:11’ was one of the winners of the Bezalel Award, sponsored by the Bible Society as part of the Chaiya Art Awards 2018.

After attending the Chaiya Art Exhibition at the Oxo Tower on the South Bank, London in March this year, and buying the beautiful accompanying book ‘Where is God in the 21st-Century World’, I was delighted to catch up with Elisabeth to find out more about her life and work.

 

I understand you have a background in fine art. How did you get into textiles?

My father was a professional artist and illustrator, so I grew up surrounded by art activity and materials. I was painting alongside him in his studio before I was of school age and was convinced, that like him, I would be an artist!

At school I took every creative opportunity and exam that the curriculum would allow and went on to complete my Honours degree in fine art and dance at Goldsmiths College. Since University I have worked in Commercial retail management, as an interior designer, and managed an Arts Council funded gallery.

I have always stitched. During the years at home with my young sons I completed my City & Guilds Embroidery with distinction, and have become increasingly immersed in the fascinating world of textiles and embroidery.

My sons are now men and I work from my home studio in Suffolk. I make work for exhibitions and to commission, and alongside my own artistic practice I am a tutor and mentor to design and textile students. Work now falls somewhere between fine art and craft as I combine techniques and materials.

What inspires you?

I live in rural Suffolk and walk often across fields, through woods and alongside coast and estuary with my family. In my recent work I have tried to bring together patterns remembered as I have walked, particularly through chalk landscapes. I grew up in Kent, moved to Hertfordshire as an adult and now live in Suffolk, and so have been surrounded by chalk most of my life. I have many memories of walking the South Downs and the Seven Sisters cliffs that are scoured by footpaths: some signposted and others the desire lines of explorations taken away from the mapped route.

My walks through landscape bring to mind a recurrent analogy of thread and sewing as a process of making marks and patterns upon cloth. Wherever I look in the countryside I see ridges and furrows – ploughed fields, rock strata, paths, tree bark, tractor tracks – and this has led me to identify, record and explore through stitching the patterns that I found within my experience of landscape.

 

 

Tell me a little about your winning exhibit.

The ‘land’ for my stitching is a ground fabric of my handmade dry felt and screen printed fabric. My stitches move through my fictional landscape making motifs of hidden geology, ancient people and buildings, agriculture and paths, as if seen via aerial photography. It’s also a ‘God’s-eye’ view, which is why I entitled the piece ‘I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the fields is mine: Psalm 50:11’

Our world and landscape speak strongly to me of God and His creation. We have a real responsibility to respect and look after it as we live within it. This piece is about the experience of our landscape and my love of it. We must live within the natural geology with care and so this piece integrates signs of our buildings and agriculture while birds soar free in silhouette over fields, buildings, river, pebbles and open country.

 

 

I found Elisabeth’s creative process particularly fascinating, as I too gain great inspiration from walking in the countryside. She uses her stitching as I use my words, shining a new light on our world so that we see it with different eyes. Her artwork takes the chaos of our environment and our lives and invests them with a shape – a sense of order and meaning – that can be shared with others, making the invisible brilliantly, beautifully visible. Perhaps its not a surprise that there are similarities in the way we work. We are, after all, sisters!

 

 

Artist Bio

Elisabeth Rutt is a freelance textile artist and tutor. She graduated from the University of London, Goldsmiths College, with a BHum, Fine Art and Dance in 1982. She has worked in interior design and been both Artist in Residence and Associate Artist for Dance East. She was Gallery Manager for Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery from 2006 to 2012. Elisabeth now divides  her time between making work for exhibition or commission, as tutor/mentor for a  textile masterclass in Hertfordshire and other teaching by invitation, particularly enjoying artist in residence opportunities in Suffolk schools. She is a member of the Suffolk Craft society with whom she exhibits twice annually.

Website:  elisabethrutt.co.uk

Where is God in the 21st Century?

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On a grey Saturday in March this year, I boarded a train to London Blackfriars to view a free exhibition at London’s prestigious gallery@oxo, located on the busy South Bank Riverside, on the intriguing theme of ‘Where is God in our 21st century world?’ The exhibition was the result of the newest theme-based biennial art award, The Chaiya Art Award, which had a top prize of £10,000.

 

 

Arriving at Blackfriars, the view of London was so cold and bleak that I really wondered why I’d bothered to forsake my weekend lie-in for all the hassle of station car parks and train connections. Without quite knowing where I was going, I wandered along the banks of the Thames, circling the Oxo Tower in search of what had been promised as an exciting and thought-provoking experience. The pavements were packed with shivering tourists and blue-lipped buskers and I found myself following a stream of people making their way through a glass door. Anything to get out of the cold!

Accidentally I’d arrived! I was greeted by warm air, white space, and walls displaying vivid pictures which hung like windows into another world. Along with those who had stumbled in out of the cold, I wandered through the gallery, drinking in the eclectic collection of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, textiles, photography and videos. It was not at all what I expected. Some of the exhibits were beautiful, others disturbing or puzzling. But there were one or two which caused a visceral emotional reaction. In particular ‘Genes’ by Mandy Smith, ‘The Real Thing’ by Simon Shepherd and ‘Left Out’ by Maxwell Rushton, which went on to win the public vote.

 

 

‘Genes’ by Mandy Smith

“Using old jeans collected from friends and family, the artist modelled this figure on her body, while marking it with wounds experienced by her mother through episodes of illness and grief.  The hand, a plea looking for God.” (Where is God in Our 21st-Century World)

 

The Real Thing’ by Simon Shepherd

“Two global icons – the cross and the Coca-Cola brand, both claiming to be The Real Thing. What do we worship in the 21st-century? Has the focus shifted from worship of the spiritual to worship of the material? Can we see what is ‘real’? The piece poses radical questions.” (Where is God in Our 21st-Century World)

 

‘Left Out’ by Maxwell Rushton

“It’s a shock to see the human form presented uncompromisingly as a bag of rubbish. Yet it is worryingly easy to lose sight of the humanity of rough sleepers and the homeless. This inert and vulnerable figure makes us ask, ‘What must I do?’” (Where is God in Our 21st-Century World)

The winner of the £10,000 award was Deborah Tompsett for her installation ‘A Thousand Bottles of Tears’, a display of hand-thrown clay vessels using a variety of materials and techniques, each pot formed from a heart-sized lump of clay from baby to adult – each filled with a handwritten message and then re-fired. The artist explained that “since the Davidic era, 1055 BC, tear bottles have spoken of the sacredness of tears as messengers of grief, contrition and love.” (Where is God in Our 21st-Century World)

I was delighted to be able to buy an advance copy of the accompanying book, Where is God in Our 21st-Century World, which contains photos of all the exhibits plus other longlisted entrants. This beautiful limited edition book, officially released on 21 September, also contains a collection of meditations by author, Ann Clifford, on the themes which resonated through the exhibition. It’s the kind of book to dip into, finding new insights and connections. I loved the way it took me out of the box of words alone and into a visual world with a different way of expressing questions, hopes, pain, faith and purpose. I haven’t seen a book quite like this before which combines words and art in such an interesting way. Turning the pages is a revelatory experience. You cannot help but be challenged and inspired. Beautiful!

You can buy a copy from online retailers and bookshops, or through the Chaiya Art Award website here https://www.chaiyaartawards.co.uk/book

 

 

 

‘‘In the Detail’ by Kate Green

“In each act of kindness, each spark of inspiration, every expression of forgiveness, in creativity, in nature, in our fingerprint, in the universe – all reveal a God of detail. He is all around, in each moment, waiting for us to see Him in the detail.” (Where is God in Our 21st-Century World)

‘The Suspense of Living on the Edge’ by ashar

“The artist explores their emotional feelings about a world which seems poised dangerously close to falling into an abyss. Uncertain, we step into the unknown, asking where is God in all our 21st-century chaos?” (Where is God in Our 21st-Century World)

 

 

Who is your ideal reader?

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It’s a sad fact of life that authors can no longer sit in their ivory towers reading books and writing unputdownable stories of indescribable beauty and profound insight.

 

 

Self-published authors have known for years that if they don’t promote their books then no one is going to buy them. But even traditionally published authors are expected to dip their toes (or tweeting fingers) into the overcrowded and murky swamp of book promotion.

But before you begin signing up for every social media platform available, do something low tech first. Take a moment to think about who your ideal reader might be. You might save yourself an enormous amount of time and energy if you tailor your promotional activities to the types of people you think might enjoy your book.

Your idea readers might be

  • Male, female or both
  • A child, teen, parent, other adults in a variety of age ranges (e.g. young adult, middle-aged, retired)
  • Married, single, widowed, divorced
  • A person from a particular demographic, ethnic group, culture or geographical area
  • A person of a particular political or religious persuasion
  • A person facing particular difficulties
  • A person with particular interests or hobbies
  • A person who loves fiction or who prefers biography, memoir, non-fiction or a how-to book.
  • A person in a particular income bracket or who is struggling financially
  • A person with a particular occupation or no occupation – student, homemaker, self-employed, employed, unemployed, retired

 

 

 

Back of an Envelope Stuff

The first thing I do when  trying to find the audience for my books is to mind map some of the themes and issues covered. From this, I concluded that the people most interested in reading my debut novel, The Girl at the End of the Road, would be

  • Readers of contemporary commercial fiction
  • Men and women, probably over the age of 30
  • People who had family members with special needs or needing care
  • People who live in Suffolk
  • Christians
  • Dog lovers

 

Tailoring your Promotional Activities to your Audience

Once I had a better idea of who my book would appeal to, I tailored my promotional energy in that direction.

For example, I contacted a Suffolk Arts Magazine, who were kind enough to review the book. I also drafted an article for a dog magazine. I sent review copies to special needs bloggers and talked about the book in various autism forums online. I had a book signing in Bury St Edmunds Cathedral bookshop because I have a scene in the Cathedral. I was also able to write articles for a couple of magazines to help raise awareness of autism.

As well as looking at the content of your book here are some other things you might like to consider.

  • If you are writing a children’s book, you need to target parents and schools. Your local primary school might appreciate a visit from a local author, particularly if they can link the topic of your book into the National Curriculum and you can offer an author visit/talk/assembly. There are loads of possibilities on social media, e.g. Mumsnet, local online parenting groups etc, and literally thousands of mums blogging about different parenting issues. See if you can find any that review children’s books and offer to send them a free copy or the ebook.
  • If you are writing a biography/memoir, this is the kind of material that might be shared with Women’s Institutes, U3A meetings etc. These kinds of groups are always looking for good speakers (check out the National Association of Women’s Clubs at http://www.nawc.org.uk/speakers.php).
  • If you are writing a ‘how to’ book, you could offer to run a course at a local school, college, church, library or village hall, as well as giving talks to WI meetings and women’s clubs (see above).
  • If you are writing general fiction, you could connect with local book groups, independent bookshops, book bloggers and virtual book groups and reviewers on Facebook.
  • If you are writing a theological or political book you will probably be receiving invitations to preach or speak at churches, or talk at political gatherings or conventions.
  • If your book is historical, or touches on local geographical features, you might like to contact your local library, historical society or environmental group.

 

 

Spread Your Nets Wide

Ideally before publication (but this can be done at any time you want to give your book a boost) draw up a list of all the possible people you could tell about your book. These include:

  • Friends and family
  • Local newspapers
  • Local radio
  • Your local library
  • Your Parish/Church Magazine or website
  • Local or special interest bloggers
  • Relevant special interest magazines
  • Groups you belong to and would be willing to support you (mine were dog walkers, my writing group, parents from school)
  • People on your Christmas card list
  • High profile names relating to your area of expertise or the type of book you are writing
  • Facebook groups – search for book groups, groups interested in topics covered in your book, and Facebook groups in your home town who would be interested to hear news of a local author
  • Use Twitter hashtags. It’s a bit like tagging a person but relates to a topic. It’s a good way of connecting yourself to other people with similar interests, e.g. in promoting The Girl at the End of the Road I sometimes used the hashtags #autism, #aspergers and #walking the dog. Other useful hashtags for writers inclue:-

#AmWriting

#AmEditing

#WordCount

#WritersLife

#WritingTip

#WriteTip

#PromoTip

#Publishing

#EBooks

#BookMarketing

#PubTip

#WIP (work in progress)

#FridayReads

#BookGiveaway

#MustRead

#LitChat

#Kindle

#Review

#Blog

#CoverReveal

 

Ways to get the message out

As well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc, there are many other ways to get the message out, depending on who you are contacting, e.g.

  • Sending out a press release to all appropriate newspapers and magazines with a personalised covering letter/email from yourself.
  • Producing tailor-made articles in advance for local newspapers and magazines, together with a good photograph of yourself and the cover art of the book. They might not choose to publish, but they are much more likely to include a piece on you as a local author if you have done all the donkey work for them and written an article which all they have to do is edit.
  • Give a free copy of your book to your local library, and have some bookmarks printed advertising your book to go on the front desk.
  • Get some flyers/posters printed and ask if your local shops, community centres, church or school would be willing to display them for you.
  • Send out invitations to your book launch to as many people as you can, in particular Facebook groups sharing things to do in your home town.
  • Photocopy a small flyer for inclusion with your Christmas cards – this can be done even if your book is going to be published in the Spring. (The run up to Christmas is the busiest time for bookshops. If you include a small flyer with your Christmas cards and send them out on 1 December it will remind people that they still have time to buy your book to give as a present.)
  • Contact local radio stations to ask if they would be willing to interview you.
  • Ask your friends if they know any bloggers, book reviewers or journalists you can contact about your book.
  • Ask local shops if they would be willing to stock and sell your books. It doesn’t have to be a bookshop. You might have a small gift shop or newsagents that would be willing to take copies direct from you as a local author at a reduced price so that they can sell them on.
  • Create an author page on Facebook, if you haven’t already done so. Here you can share every step of your journey to publication, build a sense of anticipation among your followers and generate online pre-orders.
  • You could organise a blog tour. If you want to see how you could do this, check out my blog here: http://www.kahitchins.co.uk/how-i-organised-an-author-blog-tour/

 

Tips

  • Try and always have a copy of your book with you in case you bump into someone who wants to buy one.
  • Have a card or bookmark to give away or place in each copy of your book so people know how to contact you or follow you on social media.
  • Ask people to give you feedback. Tell them they can always leave a review on Amazon. They don’t have to have bought the book on Amazon to leave a review.
  • Never ask to do a review swop – this goes against Amazon’s review policy.
  • Never pay for a review – this goes against Amazon’s review policy and if they find out they will remove all the reviews from your page. However, you can give a free copy of your book to someone and ask for honest feedback.
  • Always have a visitors’ book or sign-up sheet with you when you give book talks or signings. Encourage people to leave their email address to sign up for your newsletter. This means you can contact interested parties about any price reductions, events or future book releases. Don’t send newsletters too often, and only send them if you have something meaningful to say.
  • Actively encourage people to follow you on social media.
  • Personal recommendation is still the best way to sell books, so ask people to recommend your book to a friend if they enjoyed it.
  • One of the best ways of promoting your book is to find other people who will promote your book for you. Try and encourage your friends and family to leave Amazon and Goodreads reviews. If you know any bloggers, ask if they would interview you or review your book on their blog. Once you have received reviews or been mentioned in blogs, you can share these on Facebook and Twitter. Lots of activity on your social media about the feedback you are getting increases the credibility you have as a writer.

 

Instead of focusing all your energy on your book, spend a little time thinking about your readers – where they hang out, what they enjoy doing and how you might be able to connect with them in a meaningful way. After all:

 

Social Media Anxiety

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Whether you are new to social media or already active on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Goodreads, it’s very easy to feel it’s all getting out of control and taking too much time. There are so many platforms and so much advice about what authors should be doing – most of the technical stuff going right over my head.

People are interacting with each other in new and evolving ways online. Everything seems to be moving at a tremendous pace. It’s difficult to keep up with the jargon and the etiquette. We don’t want to look stupid or attract trolls. It would be easier to put our heads in the sand and stick to the real world of paper and ink.

 

 

As a writer and a Christian, I want to communicate the things God has laid on my heart. It would be so much easier if I could just write a book, find a publisher, and leave it at that. As it turns out, finding a publisher is just the start of the journey. Once you have that elusive publishing deal, it’s expected that you’ll do a certain amount of book promotion online. For me, it’s been a steep and difficult learning curve.  I only started my online journey in 2013, but here are some of the things I’ve found out as I’ve begun to use Facebook and Twitter.

It’s not about the Numbers: if you can’t go wider, go deeper

The virtual world is full of unpleasant gossip, facile posts about cute pets and what people are eating for dinner, news of injustice and brutality around the world, political lobbying, hard sales tactics, erotica, bad language and belittling humour. This means that as well as puzzling about the mechanics of how to use social media, there’s the question about how I can have a public presence as a Christian author, engaging with others about my projects and also demonstrating some grace and generosity in my interactions. Social Media can’t just be ‘buy my book, buy my book’. Firstly it doesn’t work and secondly it annoys people. Social media needs to be social.

 

 

I once naively asked to join a promotional group for writers on Facebook. I was told I couldn’t join because I had less than 10,000 Twitter followers! Then I was told I could join a smaller group, build up my following until I had reached 10,000. The way they built up followers was by a kind of chain letter system. Every day on the Facebook group you had to post up your Amazon book page and Twitter address, and then share EVERY Amazon book page above you on social media and follow every Twitter address. You couldn’t pick and choose which books you shared. As you can imagine, some of the front covers were highly questionable, so I unfollowed the Group.

I’m never going to have 10,000 followers on Twitter, and don’t want to have that many because it would be impossible to manage and to meaningfully connect with people. So instead of worrying about the number of followers I have, I’m trying to go deeper instead of wider. This could mean going deeper on a certain topic or going deeper in my connection with a small group of people. I’m trying to shift my perspective away from the number of likes I receive and working towards real exchanges with people, taking an interest in their creative projects, sharing their posts and thanking them if what they have written has enriched my day. We can all spread a little bit of joy into other people’s lives.

Do you feel you are speaking to an empty room?

It’s easy to feel disappointed when there’s no reaction to the things you are posting and sharing. Sometimes it all seems a bit of a waste of time.

 

 

I’ve had to change my expectations about what a single post can do. I don’t think there’s a secret formula, but I do think it’s worth persevering. At least I have a place in the virtual world where people can meet and connect with me. I’ve had some wonderful opportunities to speak on the radio and to submit articles to magazines. Maybe I wouldn’t have had those opportunities if the person extending the invitation hadn’t been able to search my name and find me on the internet. Having a website and a Facebook page with photos of events I have spoken at gives a certain amount of reassurance that I am a ‘proper writer’ and not the nervous introvert which I am in reality.

Being Intentional rather than Reactive

However, I’ve found it’s all too easy to spend my time on social media reacting to what other people share. This has made me feel that my life and the things that concern me are much less interesting than what everyone else is posting. Instead of reacting to other people all the time, I’m now trying to be more intentional. I can choose what I let into my life, and how I let it in. Hopefully this is bringing some structure into my use of social media which will be positive over the long term.

My social media strategy now looks like this. Choose what I let into my life and how I let it in. Decide what I’m going to talk about and how I’m going to talk about it. Share what I feel is important. As well as promoting my work, I share in private Facebook groups some of the deeper themes that my work focuses on. Hopefully as I move forward this will bring back some sense of control.

The lives of authors are filled with risk. We are juggling work and family commitments, while digging deep as writers and exposing ourselves to the judgement of others. Life seems full of small rejections and disappointments, not least on social media. But that’s no reason to give up. If you believe in your writing, and know there are readers out there who would like to connect with it and with you, then keep reaching out with you message. Just connecting with one other person in a meaningful way can make all the difference to them and to you.

 

 

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