Dec 20, 2013
This is just a quick message to wish a Happy Christmas to all you lovely followers of my blog. I have been hard at work over the last couple of months writing the fourth novel in my LAVENDER ROAD series. I feel as though I have been living in 1942 so it comes as quite...
Nov 26, 2013
There’s nothing worse than indecision. It is debilitating, frustrating and exhausting. All those ‘Should I/shouldn’t I’s, ‘But what if’s, ‘Which’s, ‘When’s and ‘How’s cause our little brains to work overtime, jumping from one option to another like demented fleas. And...
Oct 19, 2013
So, your novel is finished. You have mulled, agonised, edited, lost confidence, honed, polished, regained confidence. And now you want to get it published by a ‘proper’ publisher. So you peruse The Artists and Writers yearbook, you ask fellow writers, you...
Sep 22, 2013
By any standard writing a novel is a long hard grind. Despite popular opinion, very few novelists ever hit the real mega buck level (many don’t hit any buck level at all). But yet judging from the plethora of wannabe novelists on Twitter and Facebook, it appears that...
Aug 9, 2013
The current mantra for writers and wannabe writers is ‘If you want to people to buy your book then you need a great opening.’ And yes that’s true, the first few pages are crucial. If you don’t hook your reader straight away as they browse in the book shop or online...
