debut novel Archives - Clare Stevens

Highs and lows of an author’s life

by Clare Stevens on January 25, 2020 with 3 Comments

As it’s a new year – a new decade, in fact – it seems a good time to look back at the year just gone and reflect. 2019 was a momentous year for me, the one in which my first … Read More

The beauty of the rave review

by Clare Stevens on August 7, 2019 with 2 Comments

Every time someone tells me they like Blue Tide Rising, I do a little dance of joy. If it’s people I already know, I always add a caveat – they might just be being nice. But when it’s a stranger … Read More

The writer’s life

by Clare Stevens on March 24, 2019 with 5 Comments

All the fun of the book fair With the launch of Blue Tide Rising just a week away, I have a room stacked with of boxes of books, a fridge full of Prosecco and a brain bursting with things I … Read More

How to launch a novel

by Clare Stevens on March 3, 2019 with No Comments

“Treat it like a party!” Four weeks today I launch my first novel, Blue Tide Rising. I’m using a tried and tested formula, stumbled upon by accident in 2014 when a group of fellow writers and I decided to publish … Read More

Author’s angst and the pain of letting go

by Clare Stevens on November 18, 2018 with 2 Comments

Writing a novel is a bit like having a child. You watch it develop from an embryonic thing into something beautiful (hopefully). You nurture it, you correct it, you watch with wonder as day by day it surprises you. You … Read More

debut novel

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this: