I was thrilled with the positive feedback for my inaugural newsletter. There was a bit of news, an extract for…
As a homework exercise for Dean Writers Circle, I suggested writing a piece in second person, present tense. Not something…
Having spent the time before Christmas setting this up, I’m thrilled at how people are responding to my invitation to…
Why wait until the new year to do an overview? It’s been an ‘interesting’ year (old Chinese curse: May you…
The opening chapter (plus synopsis) of one of my unpublished novels was long listed in a major competition. How exciting…
Words of wisdom from Harry Bingham at Jericho Writers. If you haven’t signed up for their newsletter at least, or…
What made me think about it? This morning I was listening to Woman’s Hour on BBC 4 as I drove…
Ok, so Goodreads isn’t a publishing platform but it’s a huge marketing one, and as I can’t start uploading my…
Last night we had a zoom meeting of our local novel group, a sub-group of Dean Writers Circle. Right now,…
I was very lucky to have a conversation with Imogen Robertson, chair of the HWA, who kindly offered to give…