This week marks a real milestone for me. On the 29th March 2018, I took the huge step of leaving my day job and heading out into the world as a full-time writer. Was I scared? You bet your life, I was. Was I sad to be leaving? Well, I was sad to be leaving …
Continue reading I Felt the Fear and Did it Anyway ~ One Year On …
It's always an exciting moment when I see my next book cover for the first time, and I'm very lucky because lovely Berni Stevens never lets me down. This time around, she sent me three options for the sequel to Belle, Book and Christmas Candle, each similar in style to my first Witches of Castle …
Continue reading #NewBook #CoverReveal ~ Back to Castle Clair
It's been a while since I last posted on here, and for that I can only apologise. It's been a strange few weeks in our family. February was pretty grim for reasons I won't go into, and I've really struggled to write personal stuff when I've had so much on my mind. The thing about …
Continue reading Looking Forward to Spring ~ A March Catch-Up
If you read my blog post last week (if not, you can find it here) you'll recall that I'd made a promise to myself that I would take two days off per week from both writing and social media. I'd chosen, for various reasons, to make Sunday and Monday my "weekend". So, on Saturday night …
Continue reading Pulling the Plug ~ Two Days Without the Internet and How I Survived It!
So there I was, tapping away at my keyboard, watching the magical words appear on the screen, crossing my fingers that - at last - Castle Clair 2 was well on its way (and crossing your fingers is very hard to do when you're typing, trust me) when, all of a sudden, I was attacked …
Continue reading Cutting the Connection: When Social Media Stops Feeling Sociable.
Question: What's the most dangerous condition a writer can have? Answer: Comparisonitis. Never heard of it? Lucky you. It's a horrible condition which saps the joy from your life, destroys your confidence, and leaves you feeling like a total failure, even if you've got plenty to celebrate and be proud of. When I hear …
Continue reading Then and Now: Fighting Off the Dreaded Comparisonitis #amwriting
A week is a long time in politics, as they say. Let's face it, in the current climate, ten minutes is a long time in politics. But a week can also be a long time in the life of an ordinary, everyday person, too. Like me. Looking back at my blog post last week, it …
What a week I've had. Remember last week, when I told you I was going to change my life - one small step at a time - using my keywords, Mind, Body and Spirit? If you were paying attention, you'll recall that things didn't quite go according to plan, due to a rotten cold that …
Continue reading When Your Get Up and Go Has Got Up and Gone …
Ah, how foolish we mortals are. We will insist on making plans, even when past experience should have taught us by now that something is bound to go wrong, and all our carefully-laid schemes will be thrown into disarray by circumstances beyond our control. It's true, isn't it? Well, it is for me. Sometimes I …
I meant to publish this post before the weekend but, typically, I was laid low with the dreaded lurgy: three days with practically no voice at all (my husband loved it!) a pounding headache and a soundtrack of sneezes and coughs. I suppose it made a change from Christmas songs. At least, today, I seem …
Continue reading A Look Back at 2018 ~ a year of big changes and leaps of faith.
