It seems like ages since I last blogged on here. Well, it is ages - it was March when I last put fingers to keyboard for this page. Shameful! Anyway, I've brushed the cobwebs off the blog and I promise to try to do better in future. 🙂 I hope you're all well and the …
Tag: Romantic Novelists’ Association
I Felt the Fear and Did it Anyway ~ One Year On …
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 …
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Then and Now: Fighting Off the Dreaded Comparisonitis #amwriting
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 …
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A Look Back at 2018 ~ a year of big changes and leaps of faith.
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 …
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Five Photos … with Ros Rendle
The guest sharing her Five Photos with me today is author Ros Rendle. I have talked to Ros on social media for a long time now, but back in September I had the pleasure of meeting her in person for the first time, at the Romantic Novelists' Association annual York Tea. She really is as …
A New Project and a New Partnership!
I'm very excited to announce a new project with my fellow writer and very good friend, Jessica Redland. Like me, Jessica writes contemporary women's fiction set in our beloved Yorkshire. We are both members of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and of the Write Romantics group. We meet up regularly for lunch or cake and always …
Five Photos … with Christina Garbutt
My guest today is novelist Christina Garbutt. Christina and I both attended the Romantic Novelists' Association annual conference in July but, unfortunately, we didn't get to meet, which is a shame. Like me, Christina has written pocket novels for DC Thomson and, also like me, she is partial to chocolate muffins. Unlike me, however, she …
Five Photos … with Chrissie Bradshaw
Sharing her five photos with me today is author Chrissie Bradshaw. Chrissie's debut novel, A Jarful of Moonbeams is out now, but you can read more about that at the end of the post. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy these delightful - and rather moving - photographs. I have to say, my guests …
Five Photos … with Lizzie Lamb
My guest today is the lovely Lizzie Lamb. Lizzie was the first author I ever got in touch with, and she very kindly answered my questions with great patience. Since then, I've been lucky enough to meet her in person, and discovered that she's just as fabulous in real life as she is online, so …
Looking Back on 2017 My Year in Pictures #amwriting
2017 has been a surprisingly productive year, given that it started quite slowly - writing wise, that is. It ended up with five new publications! And, more than that, it became the year that I finally ventured out of my little box and headed out into the big, bad world, to see what lay outside …
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