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"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
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"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
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"He left to do whatever editors do."
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"Author's WarningIf you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don't blame me. I told you."
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"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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"I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
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"Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world."
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"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are."
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"I should have my own publishing companies."
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"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."
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"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
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"I am more one for the story, I think, than the action."
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"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."
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"If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?"
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"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."
Character


"As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective."
Literature


"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"
Identity


"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."
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"Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe."
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