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Today, I have a guest interview with fellow Choc Lit debut author Lynda Stacey. I first met Lynda in 2014 when we both shortlisted for the Festival of Romance’s New Talent Award. We both now write for Choc Lit, having won their Search For a Star competition, Lynda in 2015 and myself in 2016. Lynda, is… Continue reading Interview with Guest Author Lynda Stacey

House – For those of you who have followed the aftermath of a dustbin lorry colliding with my house and car in May, (see previous blogs) –  the front wall of the house has been rebuilt, the cracks in the bedroom have been repaired and the room repainted. Just the new garage doors to go… Continue reading Round Up

I’ve been asked a lot lately about what made me a writer – so I decided to try to define it. Learning to read before I started school gave me a voracious appetite for reading books. My mother made sure I had plenty in the house. We went to the library once a week and… Continue reading How I Became a Writer

I decided to dedicate a blog to memorial benches. These have provided me with endless inspiration. I’ve even thought I should write a non fiction book about them. The pictures below show one of my favourite memorial benches at Witley Court in Worcestershire. I once wrote a poem about this gentleman that eventually morphed into… Continue reading Memorial Benches

Today, I thought I’d try a different sort of blog, a picture one, to celebrate the flowers and colour in my garden. Enjoy and let me know which are your favourites.

On Wednesday, it is Choc Lit Publishing’s seventh birthday. In celebration of this, I’ve written seven things about my association with Choc Lit. Check out their website here. I’m so proud that my debut novel will be published by this particular publisher, as my desire to join them goes back almost as far as the point… Continue reading Happy Birthday Choc Lit

I always try to look for the positives in life. However, I’ve just been through (fingers crossed we have turned the corner) a period of life that would try most people. Im only just blogging about it as I’ve been just a little overwhelmed. Having said that, you can always find someone having a worse… Continue reading Looking for the Positives

One of the senses that intrigues me is the so called sixth sense, intuition or esp. This sense refers to that feeling that makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck if you perceive danger in a street, or feel uneasy in a room, or perhaps when meeting someone new. You may… Continue reading Strange Vibrations

Writers need to be good observers of the world, because they need to be able to draw pictures in your head relating to settings and characters. Continuing with the theme of senses, today I am musing on observation by sight. What do people see when they look at you? The likelihood is that they just… Continue reading What do People See?

Continuing with a writer’s musings about the senses… Touch is another tricky sense to portray in a book. In my current wip, the hero works with stone in his day job and wood as his hobby, so I need to be able to describe the feel of his work as he is doing it and… Continue reading The Touch of Your Hand…