Debbie Howells

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My book was sold a year ago.  A long time?  Then, I might have thought so, but the months have flown past.  Months in which layers of editin...

I've just read one of Jessie Burton's blog posts  www.jessieburton.co.uk - read it, her writing is beautiful - The Miniaturist is s...

Last week started with a flower order - for a country wedding.  With the checking and checking again, of the flower varieties I'd picked...

That agents liked my book was in itself a dream come true, but was no guarantee that publishers would feel the same.  Obviously I was ho...

  Writing is an endurance test - of the love in your life.  Not just how much you love writing, because it's hard, time-consuming wor...

Writing aside for a moment, in so many ways, 2013 has been quite a year.  But this time last year, if someone had told me I'd have self-...