by chris-admin | May 8, 2024 | Blog
Books and Tunes episode 5 is available to listen on the listen again link! It features businesswoman, motivational speaker and author, Mandie Holgate on her book, Fight the Fear. And Victoria Cornwall discusses her latest book, The Paris Affair, and how the county of...
by chris-admin | Apr 12, 2024 | Blog
I’ve just started producing and presenting a programme all about books …and tunes…(clues in the title!) for West Wilts Radio. It’s basically me talking to authors and readers and books for an hour. It’s available to listen live on West...
by chris-admin | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog
I do enjoy chatting about writing and books, so was thrilled to be invited on to BBC Upload for the East by Rob Jelly to do just that on World Book Day. Here’s the interview
by chris-admin | Mar 25, 2024 | Blog
I love talking about the books I’ve written – Its great fun to answer questions and chat about the things I’ve learned and continue to learn along the way. So, thank you to Pen to Print and Write On Magazine for inviting me on to talk about my latest...
by chris-admin | Mar 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’ve got a new community radio show about books! In the first edition, I chat to author Lizzie Chantree and Peter Dixon of the Bumbling Book Club. Click here to listen https://westwiltsradio.com/shows/books-and-tunes-episode-1-250124/ ...
by chris-admin | Dec 10, 2023 | Blog
I enjoy learning new things, and even though I’ve now had five books published, one more written, and the first few hundred words of another story already on paper, I’m still finding out how to write. It’s part of the fun to be honest. And now I look...
by chris-admin | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog
I’m a great one for learning new things – I have recently taken up watercolour painting, for example, thoroughly enjoy my tap dancing classes and even after many, many years of salsa dancing, still have lessons. Every day is a school day, even if I think I...
by chris-admin | Nov 9, 2023 | Blog
I love music and have it on in the background when I’m writing – that’s if I’m not out in a coffee shop enjoying the ‘coffee shop ambient noise’ which also helps me to put words on paper. In my novels, I often use music to punctuate...
by chris-admin | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog
In the latest episode of The Talking to my Friends About Books Podcast I chat to author Claire Buss about her books and her poetry. https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/production/exports/ba7b6b04/78231986/0903be4e6b333af59a8af2097b272cfa.m4a About Claire:...
by chris-admin | Nov 2, 2023 | Blog
I love chatting to people about books, hence the clever title of my occasional podcast, The Talking to My Friends About Books Podcast. And for this one it is sci-fi author, Anka B Troitsky, who I first met many years ago when we began dancing salsa at the same time....
by chris-admin | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog
As the main character of my new novel, Summer in Your Eyes is lapsed travel writer and blogger Holly Merriweather, I thought i’d ask some actual travel podcasters onto my occasional podcast cleverly entitled The Talking to My friends about Books...
by chris-admin | Aug 5, 2023 | Blog
Notes from an Urban Rambler (Ambler): Incorporating Food Stops into Ambling Posted on June 27, 2016 by chrispenhall As a committed ambler I have learned over the years to pace myself properly in order to fully enjoy my surroundings. You can’t amble along a...
by chris-admin | Aug 1, 2023 | Blog
My friend, Carol Nightingale has just achieved a long-held ambition to write and publish a book, which is the first of many, I’m sure. It’s a psychological thriller called To Have and To Hold. We used to talk about books all the time when we got together,...
by chris-admin | Jun 27, 2023 | Blog
Q&A WITH AUTHOR CHRIS PENHALL In last week’s digest we announced SUMMER IN YOUR EYES by award-winning author Chris Penhall is now available to pre-order. Ahead of it’s release, we caught up with Chris. Read below to find out about Chris’...
by chris-admin | May 24, 2023 | Blog
Lucy Keeling and I met in 2019 when we were both finalists in the Choc-Lit Search for A Star Competition and since then I’ve loved reading all of her fabulous books – and I look forward to reading many more. Just Friends For Now is the fourth book in her...
by chris-admin | Apr 30, 2023 | Blog
I love exploring museums of all kinds because whatever is on display gives us an insight into someone’s life. Sally Jenkins has written a book about just that. It’s called Little Museum of Hope, and I invited her onto the blog to answer a few questions...
by chris-admin | Apr 18, 2023 | Blog
Kirsty Ferry has written another rather magical tale, this time featuring Bea, Schubert the cat and bees, of course. So I invited her onto my blog to tell us a bit more about it. This is the sixth book in the Schubert the cat series – it started off a few years ago...
by chris-admin | Apr 9, 2023 | Blog
Sadie Nine presents the afternoon programme at BBC Essex from Monday to Thursday between 2pm and 6pm. She’s also a singer, actor and columnist and is currently writing her memoirs, as well as getting ready for her return to the stage with her new one-woman show...
by chris-admin | Mar 16, 2023 | Blog
I spoke to author,Julie Haworth, last year about her debut novel, Always By Your Side, published by Simon & Schuster in 2022. She has now won the Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award for the book, in the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (RNA)...
by chris-admin | Mar 12, 2023 | Blog
I love talking to my friends about books, and in this episode of my imaginatively titled – The Talking to My Friends About Books Podcast, I chat to Sony Award winning radio presenter and writer, Ray Clark about his new book which will be published in June...
