Great excitement at #IndyBookTourCymru2019 central (ie my house) today with the electronic arrival of posters created specially for the tour by the wonderful Emily Glenister, publicity guru for The Dome Press J Bless her, Emily’s created so many permutations, in both English and Welsh, that bookshops are bound to find one they like and can […]
To celebrate the publication of the second novel in the Teifi Valley Coroner series – In Two Minds – in May and to contribute a bit of a Welsh flavour to National Crime Reading Month (you did know that May is National Crime Reading Month, right?) I am proposing a tour of every independent bookshop […]
This is a piece I wrote as a guest post for Linda Green’s book blog, Books of All Kinds, during the pubication blog tour for None So Blind. If you’d like to see the original post, including her review of None So Blind, you can find it here. Prior to writing None So Blind I […]
If you’ve come to this blog via the front page of my website, you’ll know that I was recently a guest at Llangwm Literary Festival. For those of you not familiar with the geography of West Wales, Llangwm is on the beautiful Cleddau estuary in Pembrokeshire. It’s a small town. Probably smaller […]
Apologies for the lack of blog posts – my original intention was to copy, here, all the posts I put up on my Facebook Author page (Alis Hawkins Author) but, for one reason and another that just hasn’t been happening. I need to do better, so this is my mid-year resolution – update blog regularly. […]
After all the excitement of getting a new publishing deal, the nitty-gritty of working with a new team to get the second iteration of None So Blind out there has begun. When you sign on with any publisher (The Dome Press is my third) the marketing department will send you a questionnaire all about you, […]
I’ve been watching Bang – BBC Wales and S4C’s Port Talbot-set crime drama. You can see my review of it on the Wales Arts Review website here:
