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Moira Mcpartlin

It is now almost a month since my latest novel Before Now was published. Amazon sales are going well and the reviews, so far all five stars, are piling in. My local bookstore, Guid Reads, has been selling dozens of copies and is restocking all the time. It is also stocked in The Book Nook Stirling, Made in Stirling and King’s Book Shop in Callander. And I am happy to say that my local library and the libraries in the adjoining counties are buying copies to add to their catalogues.

I have also had quite a lot of media coverage. Both the Dunfermline Press and the Alloa Advertiser have featured me and my book and you can read the article here.

Available from Amazon. For signed copies send a request through my contact page

The Booked programme on Pulse 98.4 FM is a good friend and supporter of my books. They have interviewed me for every book I’ve published. Booked presenter, Shirley Whiteside has a quiet, easy manner and gets to the nitty gritty of the book in a couple of easy questions. In past years I have travelled to the station for my interviews but this time the interview was conducted over Zoom.

My next interview, also on Zoom, was with John Murray, presenter of the Lunchtime Show on K107 FM, a Kirkcaldy station. Because Before Now is written entirely in the Fife accent, we talk all things Fife and John could relate to nearly all the episodes in the novel. I really enjoyed my interviews with both John and Shirley. You can hear the full interview with John in the link below.

K107 FM interview on John Murray’s Lunchtime Show
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Moira McPartlin’s debut novel The Incomers, published by Fledgling Press in 2012, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award. Over the next seven years Moira wrote her speculative fiction, Sun Song Trilogy novels (also published by Fledgling Press). The novels, set in 2089, reflect many issues we face today. Moira’s last novel, Before Now: Memoir of a Toerag, is written entirely in the Fife dialect and was published by her own imprint, Trilleachan Press, in May 2021. In 2021 she became a writing fellow at Hawthornden Castle. In 2022 she was appointed the Scriever for The Federation of Writers (Scotland), and in 2024 was the recipient of a Bridges Award, a residency at Cove Park, Argyll. Her short stories and poetry have been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies. Moira’s latest publication, A Thing So Delicate: The Hidden Voices of Scotland’s Mass Concrete Viaducts, is a collaboration with her husband, Colin. It is a hybrid about the social history surrounding the building of Scotland’s Victorian mass concrete viaducts. This includes creative nonfiction, prose, poetry, and photography. Moira is listed on the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Database.

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