Interview with Sue Moorcroft

It was lovely to be invited onto Papers, Pens, Poets to talk about my secret stationery vices.

Papers Pens Poets

I’m not going to open my drawer and count how many notebooks I have. Let’s just agree that the drawer is full.

My latest was given to me at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature at the beginning of March. I went to the festival to teach a three-day fiction-writing course and be part of a panel along with April Hardy and Nadiya Hussain. The notebook was a gift given me in appreciation of my work. Its dark red cover is smooth and silky and the (as yet untouched) pages are creamy, thick, unlined paper. It even has its own bookmark.

I was also given a Montegrappa fountain pen, the quality of which has to be felt to be believed. I even love its box! I used the pen to sign my latest contract with Avon Books UK (HarperCollins). There was only me here to see it but if felt…

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I’m thrilled that, finally, the announcement has been made that I’ve signed a new three-book deal with Avon Books UK (HarperCollins). Because announcements are never made until all parties have signed the contract, and the contract takes a while to prepare, the agreement was actually reached back in March – and it has nearly killed me not jumping the gun and announcing it myself! But I’m thrilled to continue working with the fantastic Avon team.

The first of the three new books is The Little Village Christmas. The next will be a summer book and the last another set at Christmas. This makes my position as an author ‘seasonal’. Every book will have a seasonal title and cover. You can see that I began exactly this way in my original contract with Avon.

So, what does it involve to write books with such an overt seasonal slant? Frequently, I’m…

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