Reviews
I’d like to start this blog post by saying a huge thank you to everybody who has read one of my books and then taken the time to write a...
What a year!
Yesterday somebody from my local newspaper phoned me up to ask about my latest book. It was a bit out of the blue as they’d expressed an...
Exercise
An author colleague posted recently on Facebook that she’d been for a walk and it had helped her to sort through her ideas for a new...
Eeek!
On April 30th this year I was a nervous wreck. My debut novel, ‘Forgotten’ was due to be released the following day. I’d spent most of...
Borderlines
When I moved to Carlisle, more than twenty years ago, I was surprised to find that it was lacking some of the cultural venues that might...
Gizza job...
There’s a huge difference between writing creatively and writing for a practical purpose. I can sit at my computer faced with a blank...
The past is a foreign country...
I love history. Last weekend I went for a walk on the moors above Allendale in the north Pennines and I was fascinated by the industrial...
September
It’s September. For anybody who has ever worked in education that means only one thing – back to school. I started teaching in 1990...
A room of her own
Virginia Woolf said that a woman must have a ‘room of her own’ if she is to write fiction. I tend to agree that writing is easier if...
Words, words, words
I’ve been obsessing about words lately. When I started writing my latest novel I decided that two thousand words per day was a...
