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Happy World Poetry Day 2022. Instead of making a video reading this year (you can watch any of my previous poetry readings on my YouTube) I [...]
March 21, 2022
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Out of curiosity this week I decided to search for some novel writing statistics, specifically how many people write novels. The results were [...]
March 16, 2022
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My copy of Mslexia came in the post this morning. I have an advertisement for The Buddha’s Bone in this issue (no. 93), which is the issue [...]
March 12, 2022
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Today is International Women’s Day. Since I’ve been at a low point lately, I thought I’d cheer myself up by focusing on my [...]
March 8, 2022
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Global events have sent my anxiety sky rocketing over the past week and I’m finding it harder lately to stick my happy mask on for the [...]
March 5, 2022
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Since it’s World Book Day, it’s time for a bit of a book tour of my back catalogue. I’m a fiction writer and a poet, so [...]
March 3, 2022
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Writing a main character for a novel is a lot of fun. I enjoy thinking about all aspects of a character, even details I won’t later use in [...]
February 27, 2022
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So, I decided to work out how long each of my novels took from first draft to final draft or on to publication and I wasn’t expecting the [...]
February 24, 2022
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Every time I’ve worked on a new novel (five completed: one binned; one on submission; two published and one forthcoming this year) [...]
February 18, 2022
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Happy Valentine’s Day 2022. I know lots of people who always lament this day of all things love as they think it’s only about [...]
February 14, 2022