My Blog
Implicit or explicit?
Writing a trilogy is trickier than I thought: I've written the three novels in 'Between the Mountains and the Sea' as three 'episodes' set ten years apart, but readers may not tackle them in chronological order. No matter how much you want her to start at the...
Do I really want – or need – an agent?
Some years ago, even before I'd finished my first novel, I began to think about getting it published. All the advice said, you need an agent, and I dutifully bought the Writers' and Artists Yearbook and trawled through it for those interested in my 'genre', although I...
To sell or not to sell
When I published my first non-fiction books about education, many years ago, we sold through old-fashioned mail order, and directly to clients when I was working with them. Then I started writing fiction, and set up a website where customers could buy my novels as...
From old to new
My old website on www.ruthsutton.co.uk looks impossibly clunky now, but there's some good blog posts on it, so the current challenge is to lift some of that into a new glitzy WordPress 'website' that I'm trying to build.So far, no joy, but I'll keep working on it....