Ask the Author: P.J. Roscoe
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P.J. Roscoe
The mystery of how I juggle so many different things perhaps? The stress of some of them and the excuses I hear could almost make it a comedy!
I have always been considered a mysterious woman - perhaps my own biography one day???
I have always been considered a mysterious woman - perhaps my own biography one day???
P.J. Roscoe
He screamed at her to stop, for pity sake, as he covered his ears with trembling hands, his eyes closed tightly so as not to see the vision before him. The woman merely laughs, before fading into nothing.
P.J. Roscoe
I think it has to be Jamie and Clare of the Outlander books. I know it as 'Cross Stitch'. Read it over twenty years ago, so finally happy to see it on the screen! Perfectly chosen to play the characters.
P.J. Roscoe
Hi Doug, Without going into too much detail as it is an ongoing investigation, my old publisher has not paid any authors royalties and her behaviour was less than professional in many ways and is coming up with all kinds of excuses - so action has been taken. many authors are still fighting to get their rights back - I was the lucky one. It reverted back to me in January and so I re-released my award-winning novel, 'Echoes' again.
The how, is, I asked for it back and she agreed. If you aren't happy with the publisher, then check your contract. Mine had broken the contract ten fold, so there was no come back. Good luck :)
The how, is, I asked for it back and she agreed. If you aren't happy with the publisher, then check your contract. Mine had broken the contract ten fold, so there was no come back. Good luck :)
P.J. Roscoe
Confidence comes and go's. I am by no means a 'confident' person in general, but when I do book signings, talks, healing workshops etc I have to trust that I can do it and it somehow works out. Experience has been a great help - getting out there and meeting people. I am terrible at meeting new people. I have nothing to say, or think I don't, but I force myself to do it. This nervousness shakes my confidence every time, but I feel the fear and do it anyway! Confidence in my books never falters, in that I know they are a great read, too many people have informed me of that, but I lose confidence when sales are bad, but again, I have to keep turning that around to believing and trusting it'll be okay. Hope this helps Jason. Enjoy your day x
P.J. Roscoe
Never had it. I've had days that I've been so tired from other things in life that I've only managed a few pages or I work on a short story instead, or one of my articles for The News in Books website, but I've never sat and just stared at the screen - if i get to that stage, I'd have to ask myself why?
P.J. Roscoe
Research and writing, writing and research! I love delving into archives and finding some snippet of information that would add to the story and I love weaving the little plots into and around each other to unravel together and conclude - oh such fun!
Oh and being at home and coffee!! and chocolate and biscuits and being my own boss... did I mention coffee!!?
Oh and being at home and coffee!! and chocolate and biscuits and being my own boss... did I mention coffee!!?
P.J. Roscoe
Believe in what you do and enjoy it because if you don't, what's the point?
P.J. Roscoe
I am working on my third and fourth novels - 'Where Rivers Meet' and 'In-between worlds'. 'Where Rivers meet is set in a beautiful Welsh village 'Beddgelert' and moves between present day and the 19th century and the local copper mine. It needs a lot of research, though the story is finished, I have to double check facts now and make sure they fit the story. I had hoped to be finished earlier this year, but life took over and so it sits in my brain like a waiting cat ready to pounce!
I am also working with a very talented artist, Marina White, who is bringing my faerie stories to life. We were almost ready to publish the first story, but her studio was broken into earlier this month and they destroyed her work, just for the fun of it. So we start again.
I am also working with a very talented artist, Marina White, who is bringing my faerie stories to life. We were almost ready to publish the first story, but her studio was broken into earlier this month and they destroyed her work, just for the fun of it. So we start again.
P.J. Roscoe
Inspire - to create and stimulate activity - that isn't me! That to me implies that I need to be inspired to write - I don't. It is a part of me that I cannot be without, like asking me not to breathe.
I have and always have had an imagination brimming over with stories, they need to get out - I suppose that is some form of inspiration? If they don't come out - my head will explode??!!!
Oh, and coffee! Need my coffee in the morning but no longer a cigarette - which I miss sometimes - not the smoking bit - yuk! But the 'appearance' of being a writer!! All the greats smoked and had a 'look' about them - or maybe it's just me being mad!
I have and always have had an imagination brimming over with stories, they need to get out - I suppose that is some form of inspiration? If they don't come out - my head will explode??!!!
Oh, and coffee! Need my coffee in the morning but no longer a cigarette - which I miss sometimes - not the smoking bit - yuk! But the 'appearance' of being a writer!! All the greats smoked and had a 'look' about them - or maybe it's just me being mad!
P.J. Roscoe
The most recent book I am working on is only half done and is titled 'In-between worlds'. Without giving too much away, I wanted to explore how it might feel for someone whom people believe is crazy and is locked away yet their experience to them, is very real.
It was a quote from a great film 'Gothika' - "You can't trust anyone when they think you're crazy..." It got me thinking. How many times have we as a society considered people to be 'mad' when perhaps they are the most rational people and it is us that are blind to the truth???
My most recently published book 'Freya's Child' came from living on the Wirral, England for a while. Everywhere there are remnants of Viking occupation and they as a race have always interested me. I think they got a bad press, when truthfully, everyone was as bad as each other!
It was a quote from a great film 'Gothika' - "You can't trust anyone when they think you're crazy..." It got me thinking. How many times have we as a society considered people to be 'mad' when perhaps they are the most rational people and it is us that are blind to the truth???
My most recently published book 'Freya's Child' came from living on the Wirral, England for a while. Everywhere there are remnants of Viking occupation and they as a race have always interested me. I think they got a bad press, when truthfully, everyone was as bad as each other!
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