Self-published writers

My debut psychological suspense novel, The Bookseller, sold to Harper in 2013 in a pre-empt. I'm not going to lie-it was an amazing deal. The type of deal that compelled me to ask my husband, when I called to break the news, "Are you sitting down?"

The saying goes ‘everyone has a book in them', and these days it really is possible to get published as there are multiple routes to seeing your book in the shops.  Read more

In April, Halima Khatun became the first two-time winner of the Selfies Awards, triumphing in the fiction category with The Secret Diary of a Bengali Newlywed, the third in a series that started with 2021 Selfies fiction winner The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage. She is a former journalist, writer and PR consultant.

Having grown up with the old Foyles as my playground I have always loved books, and having spent much of my childhood in a boarding school where the weekly routine included the obligatory letter home, and my young adult life working overseas in the days before international telephone services were affordable, writing has always been part of my life.

New research by the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) claims authors who self-publish currently earn more than traditionally published authors.  Read more