Hello! You see, such is my dedication that, even though I'm STILL in pain with this dratted shoulder, I have forced myself to sit at my desk and write a blog post. Never say I don't make an effort. 🙂 It's been a busy month so far. A couple of weeks ago, DH and I …
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Looking Forward to Summer: A June Catch-Up
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 …
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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#NewBook #CoverReveal ~ Back to Castle Clair
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 …
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Looking Forward to Spring ~ A March Catch-Up
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 …
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Pulling the Plug ~ Two Days Without the Internet and How I Survived It!
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 …
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Cutting the Connection: When Social Media Stops Feeling Sociable.
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 …
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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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Mind, Body and Spirit ~ it’s all about self-care in 2019. When I can get off the sofa.
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 …
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 …
