It surprised me to receive an email on Friday telling me the reader's report from the New Writers' Scheme was ready to access. I had...

Today I'm welcoming author Madalyn Morgan to Carol's Corner to continue the celebrations for the recent launch of her post WW2 novel...

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...

Saturday- St George's Day and Shakespeare's birthday I spent indoors at a workshop- except for a brief foray outside for food and to...

Where has this year gone? In just over a month it will be Christmas again. I'm now a year older, but let's forget about that...:...

Lots of berries on the Hawthorn... The past week has seen a lot of plans for the last quarter of the year change - but as the saying goe...

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. ...

In the 30+ years I've been reading historical romance novels, there has been a lot of change. But...I don't believe the change has...

Last November when the e-book version of the One Word Anthology was released I officially crept into existence. Serena Lake has been evolv...

Do you take time to seriously look at how you've done each year? And I don't just mean waiting until January the 1st and making reso...

Wednesday's have become the day I get on with writing my Nottinghamshire novella. (This was originally going to be written for the My ...

The late nights started with the Olympic closing ceremony- I especially enjoyed Eric Idle's 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life...

Last night was manuscript night at the writers' club and the three of us (who will be reading at the fringe event at Lowdham Book Festiv...

I don't mean length-wise, though that's a possibility. If you haven't seen Sally Quilford's post today about the new My We...

A few weeks ago- okay perhaps slightly more than a few weeks- I followed a link to a survey on Historical fiction reading. This wasn't a...