linda huber

Tag: The Attic Room

  • The Name Game – or, what (not) to call your characters…

    We’ve talked before about the problems people face finding the right name for their children and animals. But for writers, name-finding problems don’t stop there; they carry straight on into the tricky task of finding good names for our characters. With the first book it’s easy – you can choose names you like that fit…

  • The Attic Room video trailer

    Son 2 and I have been busy making a new trailer. I found and downloaded the images, wrote the text, organised the credits, chose the music and put everything into MovieMaker. He pulled it all together and tweaked the timing. The result is below: The Attic Room, available on 22nd July. Amazon UK Amazon US…

  • Bats in the attic…

    Attics are constantly on my mind these days, in the run-up to publishing my third book, The Attic Room. Our old house had a lovely attic room – sloping wooden roof, small and spidery window, dark corners full of old boxes containing Great-grandma’s crockery… It was the perfect place to keep all those things we…

  • Graffiti – and book cover news!

    While our north-side windows here overlook lovely woodland and the lake, the view to the south is plain street. A couple of trees, a car lot – and, diagonally across from us, a building site where they’re constructing a new primary school. Up until last week, the board fence surrounding this site was an inconspicuous…