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I am very proud to announce that the cover of The Butterfly Collector, designed by Alex Dickson, has won a Gold Star in the July 2013 e-book Cover Awards from The Book Designer. The Butterfly Collector designed by Alex Dickson. “Designer Alex Dickson captured the essence of the novel, which is the elusive and compelling nature of obsession. At the centre of the butterfly…
The Words of Wisdom Interview – a series of interviews with writers and artists, to discover their methods, dreams and inspiration.
Helen is an author living in Christchurch, Dorset. She started writing in 1997, initially writing children’s stories and short stories aimed at the women’s magazine market. She embarked on the Writers Bureau correspondence course, which she completed in two years. She also became Press Officer of the athletic club where she coached.
She was introduced to a publisher at a half-marathon race in Majorca. That publisher turned out to be John Blake who then invited Helen to write a book about people who’d run over 100 marathons. That book turned into ‘Running Crazy’, published by John Blake Publishing in March 2012, available on Amazon, all good book stores and some sports shops.
www.helensummer.com
The Words of Wisdom Interview – a series of interviews with writers and artists, to discover their methods, dreams and inspiration.
This month’s Words of Wisdom come from the inimitable Pam Fudge who has been writing since 1983 with success initially in competitions and on local radio. Pam’s short stories have been published on a regular basis since 1984 by such magazines as Patches, Hers, My Story, Romance, True Story, Woman’s Story, My Weekly, Chat, Bella and Family Circle. The most recent have been published in World Wide Writers, The Lady Fiction Special, Woman, Take A Break, Best, Fiction Feast and Woman’s Weekly.
For eleven years, until March 2002 Pam tutored Writing For Pleasure And Profit classes for the local Adult Education Service, with a number of successes among her students. She was also a Home Study tutor for Writers News for two years.
Pam Fudge is a member of Flair For Words, The Romantic Novelists’ Association, The Society of Women Writers and Journalists and The Society of Authors. She is available for talks and workshops in the local area. Publication of Pam’s 10th novel Not What It Seems is 31st July 2013
In 1908, a young newspaper reporter, Napoleon Hill, went to interview one of America’s richest and most influential businessmen of the time – the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie took to the personable young reporter so much he gave him a challenge. Would Hill be willing to spend the next twenty years interviewing the wealthiest men in the country to…
