The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards named Where are the grown-ups? as a finalist in the 2020 Adult Non-Fiction category. It's rare in any book award to receive specific feedback from…
Success for Where Are The Grown-Ups? at Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2020
Where are the grown-ups? is among the finalists in the Memoir category of the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2020. The US-based book contest, endorsed by the…
An audio interview with Robin Quinn of the Independent Writers of Southern California
https://youtu.be/c17wiNKVKHY Members of the IWOSC based in LA joined a zoom session on Turning Your Family History into a Book. Ruth Badley, author of Where are the grown-ups? answers questions…
Guest author for Memoir Mentors
A presentation, discussion and Q&A on all aspects of using your family's story as material for a book. The group chose to read Where are the grown-ups? and invited me…
Talk and Q&A for Watford Writers
Thanks to zoom, a planned presentation on Where are the grown-ups? went ahead on 1 June 2020 A thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating discussion with fellow writers on my approach to…
Interview on Cambridge 105
A pre-recorded conversation about Where are the grown-ups? with presenter Leigh Chambers, broadcast on 22 May 2020. Here's the link to the book. https://amzn.to/2tNvGBj
Interview on Chat and Spin Radio
Chat and Spin Radio give lots of airtime to authors. On 7 May 2020 I chatted to Ron about the background to Where are the grown-ups? Give it a listen…
An interview with Howard Lovy for the Alliance of Independent Authors
Listen or read the transcript https://bit.ly/2LGzAl5
Breaking the silence
The following article was written for Family Tree Magazine blog and published online in August 2019 The discovery of a black and white photograph of a beautiful young woman inspired…
In the studio with Tony Fisher at BBC Radio Essex
Tony Fisher likes to do his homework and always reads the book before inviting the author to the studio. I was bowled over by his detailed response to Where are…