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Before it all gets too busy…
I just wanted to wish you all the very best for the holiday. Thank you for all your support, patience and kind words over 2020. Here’s to a better, kinder new year.
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A Little Festive Magic
Christmas may be the big star of the month but today is one of my favourite days of the year – the Winter Solstice. You might know it as Yule, or Yuletide. It’s the day towards the end of the year in the Northern Hemisphere when the daylight hours are Read more…
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What to give Writers for Christmas?
First question: Do you have friends and family who are writers? It doesn’t matter if they’re published or not. If they write, they’re writers. Second question: Do you know what to get them for Christmas and how to help them enjoy the festive season? If the answer to the first Read more…
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Looking Back Over 2020
I normally take a moment in December to look back over the year that is almost at an end, but 2020 has hardly been a ‘normal’ year. So I’m taking that moment in November instead. The Elephant in the World’s Front Room Whether you’re writing a novel based in the Read more…
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5 Scary Reads for the Halloween season
If you want to get into the mood for the Halloween season, nothing tops a scary read, or two. Whether your preferred scares are ghosts, vampires, re-animated corpses, demonic, or psychological, I have a book to suit. The Graveyard Book The Graveyard Book is aimed at a 12+ readership but, Read more…
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Book 2 of the Haven Chronicles is on the way
I can officially announce that Burning Chair Publishing have offered me a publishing contract for the second book in my YA fantasy series. On 14th September, I happily emailed my signed publishing contract back to Burning Chair and began the process of editing my manuscript after receiving feedback from Pete Read more…
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A chat with my publisher
If I haven’t mentioned it enough already, my debut novel Haven Wakes was launched by the wonderful Burning Chair Publishing last year. They’re busy people with all their 2020 book launches, but I finally managed to catch up with Pete and Si for a chat and ask them to share Read more…
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Summer 2020 Reading
It’s summer and time to get on with some holiday reading, so I thought I’d share what books I’ll be delving into for the next few weeks. 2020 Together This is an anthology of shorts, collated to raise money for the NHS Charities Together Covid-19 Appeal. It features a whole Read more…
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Broken magic (or the one where it all went wrong)
On the last day of June, something awful happened. MailerLite broke. Let me explain. I use MailerLite to send out my author newsletter at the end of each month, but due to an infrastructure upgrade – “the most complex project in our history” – that has proved impossible. Fingers crossed Read more…
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June Catch Up
This time last year, I posted a blog about what was going on in my life: I’d just finished the developmental edit of my debut novel Haven Wakes and forwarded it to the guys at Burning Chair. My chatty muse had taken advantage of the fact that I’d finished my Read more…