linda huber

Tag: The Paradise Trees

  • Chosen Child – cover reveal

    One of the best things about self-publishing is, you get to choose your own cover image. Not that I’m unhappy about my publisher’s choice for my first two books; in fact, until recently, the cover of The Paradise Trees was my favourite. As far as cover images go, self-publishers have two options – a ready-made…

  • New book! The title is…

    The first adult novel I started was The Cold Cold Sea, way back when my children were small. I wrote and wrote but then at some point I got stuck… and that was when I started The Paradise Trees. I zig-zagged between them for years, writing and tweaking and altering and chopping and changing. Having…

  • 2015 – The best of times and the worst of times… (a mimimalist’s version)

    This time tomorrow, 2015 will be a thing of the past and we’ll all be watching the New Year’s Concert from Vienna. It’s been a year of ups and downs… Best moment: Holding The Attic Room for the first time. Second and third best moments: Holding the audio version of The Cold Cold Sea and…

  • Toilet roll holders, and other tricky moving-house decisions…

    If I had ten franks for every moving-house decision I’ve made in the past two and a bit years I could retire tomorrow, and go and live on a lovely tropical island and write books and watch the sun go down with a Marguerita by my side… In 2013 we downsized from a big old…

  • Switzerland… The Rhine Falls

    It’s a murky autumn day here in N.E. Switzerland – the leaves are falling and we can see Lake Constance from the flat again. Ours is the second largest lake in the country, vaguely fish-shaped, with Germany along the northern bank, Switzerland to the south, and Austria in the east. The Rhine flows into the…

  • 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…

  • I don’t believe it!!!

    It was a real Victor Meldrew moment. The first of two, actually. There I was in Switzerland a couple of months ago, rooted to the spot in our nearest big-town washing machine retailer, eyes popping and mouth hanging open… But let’s start at the beginning. Washing machines, as we all know, don’t last forever and…