Only fifteen days until Christmas and I've still got cards and letters to write and presents to buy. Last week I was partying; minimal...

Love has been very high profile this weekend with the marriage of the Queen's grandson Prince Harry to Meghan Markle at St. George's...

I'm catching up and getting back into a routine- slowly. Last week was very busy, as I was 50% of a talk given at Nottingham Writers...

I hope the New Year has been kind to you all so far. Today I’m welcoming writer Linda Lewis to the blog. Linda is a very successful womag ...

It's only 15 days until Christmas Day and I've still got so much to do... I'm doing this in two parts so you haven't got to ...

Christopher Bollen for The Destroyers. You can read the judge's comments in this Bookseller article . Until next year...

Do you recall me mentioning I'd won one of the annual competitions at the writers' club late last year? Yes the ghost story one with...

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 ...

Getting back to the normal everyday routine is not going well. So this coming week I really must be tough with myself. Over the years I...

Happy 2017... I hope your Christmas went well. Today is very foggy and cold, so apart from a brief trip outside I've been indoors ...

As the next few weeks will be busy, I thought I'd do my annual review now. I feel it's helpful to remind myself what I've achi...

When I first got back into writing, after a very long break, my first published pieces were letters to my local newspaper. It's a good w...

For many years I've been a m ember of the Talkback forum over on the writers-online website, and the monthly one word writing challenge ...

The oddest book title was announced last week and the Winner was 'Too Naked for the Nazis' . It was nominated by the author himself,...

The computer is still struggling on and my search for a replacement has begun. Fortunately it's kept running meanwhile, so I can tell ...

After a couple of stable days I'm getting the occasional issues again. Nothing major, more annoying than anything. So I've made su...

It's been a busy few months and apart from getting the short story finished and sent off, I've not had time to make any progress on ...

February seems to be bringing lots of competitions, so here's another one you might like. It is Valentine's Day this coming Sunday...

It was a busy week so I missed writing my Thursday post, so you'll be getting 2 for 1 today. :-) If you are a young woman writer who ...

It's the 3rd year for this short story competition, opening for submission this year on the 1st February. This year's theme is ...