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And it's worth thinking about. In a world of ebooks, many authors are already aware that social networking is vital. Perhaps they'd also be advised to consider their own marketing - collaboratively with other authors like Authors Electric, or by themselves? It's an exciting future and we at Bookbag are fascinated to see what emerges after the dust has settled!
We also want to say a big happy 25th birthday to all the lovely people at Honno Welsh Women's Press. Honno was formed in 1986 when a group of four friends got round a kitchen table in Cardiff and determined to give Welsh women writers a voice. We've thoroughly enjoyed many of their books here at Bookbag Towers, including [[Not Funny Not Clever by Jo Verity]], [[Cold Enough To Freeze Cows by Lorraine Jenkin]], [[Cut on the Bias by Stephanie Tillotson]] and [[Flint by Margaret Redfern]]. Our most recent review of a Honno book is BLAH[[All Shall be Well by Stephanie Tillotson and Penny Thomas|All Shall be Well]], published to celebrate their 25th birthday. Check it out! Congratulations, Honno, you're doing a great job. And thanks for all the books!
'''Golden Hour'''
Kind authors have written some fascinating articles for us this month.
Here at Bookbag we were blown away by Linda Newbery's latest book [[The Treasure House by Linda Newbery|The Treasure House]] and we couldn't wait to hear about the inspiration behind the story. Here is her [[Linda Newbery Talks To Bookbag in Praise of Charity Shops|guest blog]]. Jon Mayhew [[Jon Mayhew Talks To Bookbag About [[The Bonehill Curse by Jon Mayhew|The Bonehill Curse]]: Influences and Inspirations|called round]] to tell us all about the influences and inspirations behind [[The Bonehill Curse by Jon Mayhew|The Bonehill Curse]]. Imagine you had your own magic lamp, just like Aladdin. Think of what you'd wish for! Barbara J Zitwer [[Barbara J Zitwer talks to Bookbag about meeting the ladies at the Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond on the day her mother died|told us]] about meeting the ladies at the Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond in London on the day her mother died in New York and why these women, alongside her mother, were transformed into the main characters for her debut novel, [[The J M Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society by Barbara J Zitwer|The J M Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society]]. We loved Barbara Mitchelhill's [[Road to London by Barbara Mitchelhill|Road to London]] and couldn't wait to [[Barbara Mitchelhill Talks To Bookbag About Her Favourite Period in History: The Tudors|find out more]] about Barbara's fascination with the ''smell'' of Tudor life.
We've also been asking some questions of our own.
We enjoyed Tony Parson's latest novel [[Catching the Sun by Tony Parsons|Catching the Sun]] and we really wanted to know more about the background to the book when Tony [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Tony Parsons|popped into]] Bookbag Towers. We were very impressed by Louisa Reid's debut novel [[Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid|Black Heart Blue]] and we had lots of questions we wanted to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Louisa Reid|ask her]]. We also had a long [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Elizabeth Wein|chat]] with Elizabeth Wein about her super book [[Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein|Code Name Verity]]. We loved [[Moon Chase by Cathy Farr|Moon Chase]] and [[Moon Crossing by Cathy Farr|Moon Crossing]] and when author Cathy Farr [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Cathy Farr|popped into Bookbag Towers]] we asked her all about fellhounds, Thesk, and how she feels about being a writer. =We really enjoyed [[Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey by Anne Allen|Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey]] so we had plenty we wanted to talk about when author Anne Allen [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Anne Allen|popped in to see us]] at Bookbag Towers.[[The Crabber Stories by Francis Bennett|The Crabber Stories]] is a book of coming-of-age short stories set on Long Island in the nineteen-fifties - and we had plenty to talk about when [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Francis Bennett|Francis Bennett]] popped in to see us. Here at Bookbag we've always been big fans of Karen McCombie and we particularly enjoyed [[Life According to... Alice B. Lovely by Karen McCombie|Life According to... Alice B. Lovely]] so it was a real pleasure [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Karen McCombie|to ask her]] a few questions. We also liked [[Dreams (Sarah Midnight Trilogy) by Daniela Sacerdoti]], the start to a new teen paranormal series and had a few questions we wanted to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Daniela Sacerdoti|ask the author]].
'''Reviewers'''
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