The last day of August is here. For me that's the deadline for submitting my entry to the RNA's New Writers' Scheme. Last year I...

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

It's been a busy week so you'll be getting two posts today and tomorrow, otherwise it would be a very long post to read. I was scr...

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 ...

Ideas come from everywhere. Have you ever been somewhere and something you've seen sticks in your memory even if you forget everything...

The arrival of the latest newsletter from the Fashion Museum in Bath reminded me that I'd planned to go back this year so I could see A ...

The nasty winter bug finally caught up with me last week, and my brain went on go-slow until the antibiotics started to get control of the i...

A gem of a book... Not long to go has a few meanings. Christmas is of course fast approaching, and this coming Wednesday it's Awa...

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...

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...

It's always fun to get-together with other writers and talk about the highs, and sometimes lows, of writing. It's even better when t...

Thank you all for all your support and kind words recently, it encouraged and reminded me that sometimes I need to step back and relax and n...

Do you have a favourite series that you hate to miss? Well Saturday night in the my house is NCIS night. Now to be honest across the wee...

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 ...

Welcome back to part 2 of e-book to print for the self-publisher. Today it's the useful 'how to' post. (I'm taking notes f...

Welcome my guest this week, Patsy Collins, who's sharing her experience of creating print copies of her books (in addition to the e-vers...