by Miranda Rijks | Jun 8, 2019 | General
Article in All About Horsham – June 2019
by Miranda Rijks | Jun 6, 2019 | General
Ceskie Our daughter, Ceskie, is a musician. The song that played automatically when you arrived at this website was composed by her as a trailer for my books. She also wrote and performed Cat’s Lullaby, which features in Fatal Finale. The trailer piece is...
by Miranda Rijks | Apr 14, 2019 | General
I decided to self-publish my novels because my experiences of main-stream publishing weren’t so great. Unless you’re a multi-million copies selling author, you will be left to do your own marketing and are likely to receive very little money. So there I...
by Miranda Rijks | Dec 18, 2018 | General
I have had lots of great feedback on The Obituary’s book cover. It was designed by Tim Barber of Dissect Designs. Here is the author interview that I recently did with him:...
by Miranda Rijks | Nov 19, 2018 | General
I didn’t intend to hire a coach. Actually, I was a bit of a know-it-all about writing. I have a Masters in writing, I’ve written a couple of books, albeit non-fiction. One day, I was browsing a Facebook group and stumbled across a post calling for authors...
by Miranda Rijks | Oct 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Do you like reading psychological thrillers? I hope so, because this past year I have been busy switching writing genres! OMG it is SUCH fun writing psychological thrillers! Perhaps it’s slightly worrying that I like killing off my fictional characters…...
by Miranda Rijks | Jun 30, 2018 | General
Three years ago I was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma. Like Gemma, the character in my novel, Don’t Call Me Brave, I had no idea what a sarcoma was. It’s not a main-stream, scary word like cancer. Gemma thinks it sounds like a Mediterranean holiday...
by Miranda Rijks | Apr 19, 2018 | General
The lovely Macclesfield Express featured me and Don’t Call Me Brave on page two of last week’s edition. The guys at the Macc Express are great. I had plenty of dealings with them over the years, not least when I did the PR for Macclesfield’s Barnaby...
by Miranda Rijks | Mar 17, 2018 | General
Today I feel dysfunctional. I am a writer with no voice. I am able-bodied but consumed by pain. The sky is grey, heavy with the promise of snow and the threat of disruption. And that disruption could have major consequences for me, as our daughter is flying in from...
