All Hallows Eve – or Halloween – features in two critical events in the story of River Witch. Both involve…
My 2024 favourite books came are posted now on shepherd.com, a site for authors and readers. Not book reviews per…
The Shadow Key drew me in with its gorgeous cover, the time period (18th century) and the Welsh setting. Throw…
Today’s short extract is from The Herbalist’s Daughters – read more about that here The dining room is empty at…
Guilty by Definition will expand your mind! As a matter of principle, I don’t buy books by celebrity authors, but…
You don’t mind do you is a bit of nonsense in response to a prompt from a creative writing workshop.…
SecureYou called but she wasn’t there. Alice made sure of that. She’d heard whispers that if they had your telephone…
It had been years, perhaps shifting into decades, since John and Marcie had treated themselves. Always excuses, Marcie remembered. No…
The night is dark as the inside of a whale’s belly is a writing prompt taken from my 2023 short…
Jack keeps swimming is a writing prompt taken from my 2023 short story collection Who can believe in witches? They…