Another New Year approaches and I'm probably not alone in thinking 2018 has gone quickly. I've had a rest over the Christmas hol...

Toward the end of the year I review the past twelve months to see what I've achieved- or not in some cases- and set a few targets for th...

Welcome back to Part 2 of my Writer's Year. Although I didn't mention it in part 1, I did set myself an unspoken/written target on...

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 ...

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 ...

Life has been a little chaotic in the last month, so getting away from the stresses has been a much needed break. A couple of weeks ago it...

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

My rewriting of the short story is going well. I've finished the first rewrite now and just need to go back through it, as I'm a c...

Only 25 days to go... Despite saying last year I'd start my Christmas shopping and card writing early, I haven't. Honestly, the ...

I'm late posting today because I was grabbing some uninterrupted time to get on with finishing the last couple of chapters of my contemp...

Now I have to admit that the nearest I've ever gotten to sci-fi is watching Star Trek and it's many incarnations, Stargate - and ver...

It was a busy weekend, as I was trying to get everything still to do for Serena's website and remaining social media links completed. ...

To be honest, any month of the year is book festival time! As in previous years this Saturday I'll be setting up and spending time on ...

You may be familiar with the womagwriter's blog that was originally run by Kath McGurl , and now is under the safe wings of Patsy Collin...

This is actually blog post 501, and I don't know what to say... At the moment my brain is swirling ideas around, beyond my current wor...

After weeks of not adding to my work in progress due to lack of time, quiet, a stuffed up head and a second chest infection, I was really wo...

This Saturday I'm off to The Writers' Conference in Nottingham. It's been held annually for quite a few years now, but this will...

Well I've embarked on the next stage in my writing career. Nothing major, but if you try to find my blog in the next few days and it s...

Last month it was an online romance festival, and now for March there's an online crime festival. It's being run by event teams fr...

No, not online dating... :D This weekend is #Romance2015. (Though if you're reading this later in the week it will be last weekend.) ...