Category Archives: Tim’s Blog

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The Joys of Making an Audiobook

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Tim Vicary

Sometime around March last year I got an email from ACX, the company behind Audible, telling me that their previous ban on UK authors sending recordings to them was now lifted. I was delighted, and immediately set about recording an … Continue reading →

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Icarus and the Axe Murderer.

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Tim Vicary

Yesterday two young men brutally murdered an off-duty British soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby, on the streets of Woolwich, London. It seems they deliberately ran him down with their car while he was walking quietly along the pavement, and then leapt … Continue reading →

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Historical Novel Book Fair

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Tim Vicary

Francine Howarth has kindly invited me and many others to take part in her historical novel book fair, so here goes with a plug for The Monmouth Summer, a book set in 1685 which follows the tragic adventures of Ann … Continue reading →

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My marvellous new best seller

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Tim Vicary

Well, well – wonderful news! (sort of) Just what I need on a bleak March morning in Yorkshire with horizontal snow zipping past the window in an icy east wind and Spring still sunning herself far away on a deckchair … Continue reading →

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A Very British Blog Tour 2013

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Tim Vicary

Welcome to A VERY BRITISH BLOG TOUR 2013 – a collection of blogs, books and authors who are surprisingly very British. Author Clive Eaton has invited me, and a hand picked group of British authors, to take part in ‘A Very … Continue reading →

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How to punish spammers

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Tim Vicary

My phone rang just as I reached home last Monday. I parked my car and answered. It was my cousin, whom I usually speak to about four times each year. He sounded quite serious. ‘Tim, are you ok? You aren’t … Continue reading →

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Me and the Snowman; Christmas Fame

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Tim Vicary

I’ve only ever met one person who was really famous, and he was the man next door. Not my neighbor today, but the man who lived next door when I was a teenager. And ‘the man next door’ was a … Continue reading →

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Reading with Spiders – and the World Wide Web

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Tim Vicary

Today was a beautiful autumn morning, clear blue sky, dew on the grass, so I took my kindle into the garden and sat in the sun, reading. It was a good book, The Crown, by Nancy Bilyeau, and I’m recovering … Continue reading →

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Desperate housewives – er, writers!

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Tim Vicary

So here is quite a funny article by Yael Goldstein, who I haven’t heard of before. The burden of the article, if I understand him correctly, is that writers and editors are desperate, foreseeing the decline of the novel and … Continue reading →

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