by Miranda Rijks | Jun 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Jun 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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...
