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Hannah F: The Women Who Made Me
This post for the genealogy project The Women Who Made Me is the story of a girl from Cobh who ended up working for the British in the overseas division of what we know now as Bletchley Park. Like the other wives who worked alongside her employed as local staff, her...
A Case Study of Writing in Collaboration: Academic Author + Screenwriter = Thriller
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The Girl From County Clare by Vicky Adin
The Girl of the title is Brigid, with the misfortune to grow up in an Ireland, post-famine, when it was still under British rule. As a young woman from a working-class rural background, Brigid's choices were stark: stay and risk starvation or emigrate as a free...
London Book Fair 2017
London Book Fair (LBF) is the world's largest publishing trade fair. It is held at Olympia, a vast exhibition space, the size of an airport terminal building. On entering the main entrance, the noise and heat threaten to overwhelm you: the sheer scale of the place...
Buying a House in New Zealand: Find Your Perfect Home Goodreads Giveaway
February in the Northern Hemisphere? Or escape to New Zealand? Armchair travellers can dream, can't they? Be in to win a paperback copy on Goodreads of my latest release....
Castles in the Air – B.R.A.G. Interview
https://layeredpages.com/2016/08/12/interview-with-b-r-a-g-medallion-honoree-alison-ripley-cubitt/
Book Marketing – BookBub
I've just had my best number of downloads from BookBub promotion and thanks are due to Jane Davis, who so generously shared her results and tips. Jane's advice was to keep the book at the promotion price for as long as possible. In my case that was free and after four...
Annabel Langbein’s Busy People’s Bread
This is a no-knead super quick bread recipe that requires no fancy equipment. All you need is a large mixing bowl. You can find this in The Free Range Cook, by Annabel Langbein, published by Mitchell Beazley. ANNABEL LANGBEIN'S BUSY PEOPLE'S BREAD Prep time 10...
How to Run a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
How to Run a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign I'm delighted to welcome Sarah Carradine, theatre and opera director, librettist and playwright to the blog today. She's here to discuss the successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to take Perch, the first...
Author in the Spotlight – Portobello Book Blog
I was very pleased to be featured this week on Joanne Baird's Portobello Book Blog, where I talk about favourite books and recent releases. http://portobellobookblog.com/2016/01/26/alison-ripley-cubitt-author-in-the-spotlight/
Jamie Oliver’s Fantastic Fish Pie
I'm the Monday to Friday cook in our household (and a lazy one at that). I give you the speediest and yummiest recipe for fish pie that I've come across: There's no béchamel sauce, and unlike other fish pie recipes, you don't end up with dry, overcooked fish. You can...
Review of Castles in the Air
Castles in the Air by Alison Ripley Cubitt. Published by Lambert Nagle http://wp.me/p2u0s2-2Mk via @wordpressdotcom
Story Cartel
Story Cartel is a website offering authors the opportunity to have their books reviewed by readers signed up to their website. But before you rush in, a note of caution for those of you in KDP Select. The way Story Cartel currently makes your book available to...
Capital Crimes: Featuring the Lambert Nagle Short Story, Contained
New Book Release: Capital Crimes Gripping anthology. £2.99. http://ow.ly/WBMV3 Features the Lambert Nagle short story, Contained.
Castles in the Air Print Book Cover
Corruption of Power: Author Interview GW Eccles
At the end of my review of thriller writer G.W. Eccles's first Alex Leksin political thriller, The Oligarch I wrote that it was a shame that publishers and agents had passed up the opportunity to publish it. Fans of Alex Leksin will be pleased to know that he's back...
A courageous, emotional roller coaster ride – the best of Memoir Fiction
My first review for Castles in the Air: A Family Memoir of Love and Loss is now up on Amazon.com and it has come as an enormous relief. 'When I started reading this memoir-fiction, I didn't expect to read it all till the end ... But I did. Alison's narrative had me...
Extract of Castles in the Air: Linda’s Bookbag
http://lindasbookbag.com/2015/12/05/castles-in-the-air-by-alison-ripley-cubitt/
Characters, Creativity and Inspiration: Castles in the Air
Castles In the Air http://betterbetareads.com/castles-in-the-air/ … via DebRhodes. My interview on characters, creativity and inspiration.
Help Identify This Singapore Family
Singapore knows how to celebrate Christmas in style and seventy five years ago, it was no different: British residents were still going to dances and cocktail parties, hoping against hope that Singapore would see off the invading Japanese forces. My mother, Molly...
The Inspiration for Castles in the Air
In 2010, as we were packing up for yet another long-haul move, it occurred to me that I was merely following in the footsteps of my expat grandparents, who had been the first generation to live and work abroad. Only they did it in the 1930s, when it was five weeks at...
RHUBARB PIE
This rhubarb pie I made back in 2014 during the February floods. The day before I made the pie, I was trying to get to Somerset from Hampshire for a 10.30am start. My GPS decided it would be a really good idea to take a scenic shortcut via Glastonbury. The very same...
Carrot Cake for Comic Relief
Dame Edna Everidge was all set for a lovely retirement of book clubs and chardonnay in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, when she got the call from the dame of baking himself, Paul Hollywood. If Dame Edna can steal the show for the Great British Comic Relief Bakeoff then sure...