Happy Family has completed its blog tour and the results are in. Huge thanks to all of the book bloggers, and to Anne Cater who arranged the tour. Blog tour reviews: Paterson Loarn Books IMO Intensive Gassing About Books Hinton… Read More ›
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Happy Family book launch: James Ellis in conversation with Germaine Kiecke – Saturday April 25th
I am very excited. The London launch of Happy Family will be on Saturday, 25 April at the brilliant independent bookshop, Nomad Books. It will start at 18.45. The reason I’m so excited is because as part of the launch I am going to… Read More ›
The shape of something
I have an idea, elusive and shadowy, but definitely there. The shape of something. The right something. It needs to be pushed and prodded (gently), given substance by being handled. Coaxed into the light so I can see it more… Read More ›
Cartoons
Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s of the last century (oh that feels bad) I had a brief but rewarding period drawing cartoons for a magazine called the Freelance Informer. Sadly, that fine magazine for the IT contracting industry… Read More ›
Frome FM (96.6FM)
If you fancy some lunchtime conversation, tune into the Frome FM Book Club (96.6FM or online) on Friday, 27th April, at 1pm. I will be talking about An Other’s Look and how I came to write it. I’m doubly excited… Read More ›
The Wrong Story Blog Book Tour
The Wrong Story, is going on a blog book tour. Here’s the poster with its itinerary. I’ve asked it to send postcards. Do you think I should have a tour T-shirt made up? By the way, if you want to… Read More ›
Don’t hand out leaflets, Stephen. I’ll do it.
My next few months are now defined – crowdfunding my new novel, An Other’s Look, which is going to be published by Unbound. The site has gone live and here it is! I spent all last year writing it, following… Read More ›
Beasts, Tentacles, Early Days & an Unruly launch
Wow. After nine months strapped to a keyboard writing The Other’s Look, when nothing much happened other than my elbow snapped (it now has a sticky-out bit, like a cartoon elbow, which I quite like), there’s been a flurry of… Read More ›
10 Don’ts & 1 Do
Six months after turning to freelance writing full-time, I’ve learned some lessons. Mostly about what not to do. Here are ten Don’ts and one Do. Don’t blog about writing (hem) when you should be writing. You’re not fooling anyone –… Read More ›
Reviews and comments
One of the things I’ve learned (and am still learning) is that once a book has been published, genuine reviews on book sites such as Amazon and Goodreads are like gold. If anyone has read The Wrong Story and liked it, a… Read More ›
JAMES ELLIS in words 