It’s the beginning of award season with the Bafta nominations recently being announced and the Oscars just around the corner. In the blogging world the talented ReGi McClain decided to kick off 2014 with the TaDa Award and I was
Blog Tour Giveaway Winners and What’s Next
I know I said I was going to announce the winners of the amazon voucher giveaway on Sunday but my excuse was I was doing lovely Sunday-type things and I ran out of time in the end. But I have
The Great Fire of London – WIPpet Wednesday
It’s back to Time Shifters today (my time travel adventure for 8-12 year-olds) as I’ve not yet written another word of The House of Stone so I can’t share any more with you. I really must get cracking with it
5 minutes With… Alana Terry
It was only a few months ago that I met Alana Terry thanks to the wonderful world of Twitter and the bloggersphere. We follow each other’s blogs and have got to know each other and our writing via our WIPpet
The Importance of Friends – Thursday’s Children
Thursday’s Children – A weekly blog hop where writers come together to talk about whatever inspires them. Walking into town on Tuesday to meet a friend for lunch I started thinking about how important friends are not only in real
Time Travel Messes With Your Head – WIPpet Wednesday
Today’s extract is a short and sweet 20 words from chapter 4 of Time Shifters (20 + 4 = 24) for the 24th April. Us WIPpeteers find it confusing enough what with Raewyn Hewitt publishing her WIPpet posts on a
A Novel Journey
I’m celebrating a momentous occasion today – I’ve completed the final edits of my novel, The Butterfly Storm, and have sent it off to my proof reader for checking. The writing and editing process is finished, fini, finito… or more
Hilary Mantel at the Bath Literature Festival
Two heavyweights of the book world were out in force at the Bath Literature Festival over the weekend with J K Rowling talking about her new adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, on Friday 8th March and Hilary Mantel discussing Wolf
5 Minutes With… Leah Symonne
I’m kicking off my 5 Minutes With… feature with an interview with a talented young writer called Leah Symonne. Leah actually got in touch with me in January about featuring her short story, Jesse Ellsworth, on my blog and I
Deadlines and Coffee Breaks
When it comes to writing I’m at my most productive in two ways: 1) By having a deadline (gets me writing every time) 2) By leaving the house, going to a café and tucking myself away in a quiet corner