I'm totally behind schedule this Christmas, but I'm sure many are with all the changes that have been happening... My little tree.....

You can find out more  here .            March has arrived and spring beckons- thankfully. I may get rid of my lingering cold t...

It's that time of year when the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award shortlist is revealed. Of course the extracts in...

Only a month to Christmas Day and I've just started thinking about all that I need to do. Usually that's because November is busy...

Usually when I'm in Leicester, it's on a Friday for a Belmont Belles RNA Chapter meeting, so going to the city on a Saturday was unu...

I've been taking a break from writing to catch-up on reading for enjoyment and learning, but most of all not putting pressure on mys...

It's hard to believe that a week ago I was in Lancaster at the 2019 Conference of the Romantic Novelists Association. Apart from the r...

Are you a multi-tasking writer? Although I'm concentrating on my novel at the moment I'm thinking about two other projects in-betw...

Now I know that authors who are traditionally published have no say on what price the e-book of their novels is sold at. Of course there wil...

Did you have a good New Year? I spent it very quietly at home... I'm very happy to say that I've started 2019 well as I've alr...

This prize has been running 40 years with a number of extremely odd titles winning... As I blog about this every year and choose the title...

Since I got back from the RNA Conference I've added a podcast recommendation to the list on my podcast page; it's  The Bestseller Ex...

I can now reveal that my fun weekend (mentioned in my last blog post) was at the 2018 Romantic Novelists Conference at Leeds Trinity Univers...

It's been a busy week. Yes I have been at my desk writing every day this week, for an article commission. Apart from Wednesday eveni...

The decorating is done (for now) and the new flooring is down in the living room, so I'm slowly working my way through the books that ne...

You may have noticed I've been absent for a while. Well we're having a massive sort out at home. Lots of things are going into box...

Like me, you may have thought the annual Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year wasn't taking place this year. Usually it...

No, I'm not 90 years old, but Nottingham Writers' Club is this year. Which is why I was out celebrating on the 4th May. We attende...

Now I know that's a silly question to ask any writer, but I have to face it, I do have a lot of books. As a consequence of all those b...

It's been a busy few weeks, so having time to think ahead for writing blog posts has been like wading through a room full of individual ...