‘How on earth did you find time to write a novel? You’ve got kids!’ This is a question I have been asked frequently since publishing my debut novel The Girl Who Came Home – A Titanic Novel on Kindle last month. I sometimes wonder myself! But, having wondered, I’ve realised that when you have a [...]
The first time someone talks to you because they’ve read your novel, it is very peculiar. The novel I have just published – My Memories of a Future Life – is about a classical pianist who has to stop playing because of a mysterious injury. Her desperation and her search for a cure are the [...]
She was telling me the story so I’d understand that my work was doing some good stuff. It mattered to her that I held this. And as I have trouble holding the idea that my words can touch like they do, I was paying careful attention. I wanted to hold it – I think more [...]
“How long does it take to write a book?” I get asked that question a lot. My standard answer is about nine months, or about the same amount of time it takes to make a baby. It’s a bit of a pat answer, but there is some truth to it. It does take, give or [...]
Earlier this week, my first novel, Six Weeks to Yehidah, was released by All Things That Matter Press (ATTMP) and hit the Amazon bestseller charts the evening of its debut. I have no doubt that much of the reason for this early success is that I chose the right publisher. Six Weeks to Yehidah crosses [...]
Rejection letters are beautiful things. I can say that now, feeling somewhat smug that my novel, the very novel for which I have said beautiful rejection letters, has found a home. That it took six years is a fact that I do my best to repress. They were six very very long years. Does it [...]
As I write this post, I am a few days away from the release of my first published novel, Bluesday. I’m sure all of you authors know exactly how I’m feeling right now. Churning within me is a mixture of excitement and raw, gripping fear. Excitement because what I have worked so long and hard [...]
One of the great joys, and terrors, of being a writer is being asked to give readings. Readings are a validation of our work and of our ability to project that work before an audience. When they go well, they provide a rush of reinforcement that can keep us writing through those bleak Februaries of [...]
Meet K.C. Hilton: In the writers world I’m known as K.C. Hilton. I recently self- published a children’s middle-grade fiction book titled The Magic of Finkleton. Several awesome reviews have been coming in from many readers, Kirkus Book Reviews, and ReviewTheBook.com. Reviews are like ‘gold’… and writers love the ‘gold’. Writing The Magic of Finkleton: I [...]
From October 2008 through October 2009, I read a book a day. My memoir about this year of reading – and a lifetime of reading — is entitled Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading.“Tolstoy” because I read his last novel during my year of reading; “Purple Chair” because I did a lot [...]
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