Author Archive | Amanda Roberts

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Books, glorious books

The Roots of the Tree is now in stock in the world-famous bookshop, Blackwell’s of Oxford. Thank you Blackwell’s for giving an unknown local author a chance. When you decide to do something in this life, if it’s something worthwhile for you and something that you really want to do, you don’t think about how […]

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The arrogance of youth!

The arrogance of youth!

We’ve all been there, but I really can’t remember what it felt like to be so sure I was right about everything and the rest of the world was wrong. The latest example of this phenomenon of the teenage mind happened a couple of evenings ago during dinner at home. I had cooked, as usual […]

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It’s off the scale

It’s off the scale

I can’t tell you how exciting the moment is when you pick up the first, printed and bound copy of your debut novel. I’ve been in the world of printed media, ie magazine publishing, for all of my working life, some 25 years and I am quite used to seeing my work – my writing […]

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London buses

London buses

Life at the moment is like the proverbial London buses – you wait for ages for one to turn up and then three arrive at once. In the last week not only have I picked up two new clients but things have also started to happen with existing projects. Firstly, one of my existing magazines […]

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The horrible commute

The horrible commute

It’s been a long time since I’ve had to tackle the roads during rush hour – mostly I arrange meetings for times that enable me to leave earlier or later. However, on Monday, I had to travel from Oxford to Kent to press pass a magazine. What a nightmare! Not very original, moaning about the […]

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Life Lessons

Life Lessons

One of the most valuable pieces of advice I was given years ago when first starting out in my career was never to close doors – of course I mean this figuratively rather than literally. So, never say never, always leave people and projects on good terms, always pay what you owe, always deal with […]

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The writer’s mind

The writer’s mind

Being a writer is a very solitary occupation, but often the human brain is at its best when stimulated by others. As I’ve said before, I’m no scientist, so don’t expect me to come up with technical reasons why this should be so. As a writer, I spend days, just me, in front of a […]

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