Long story short, or A quick catch-up in lockdown

Long story short, or A quick catch-up in lockdown

These are strange times, with lockdown in its fifth week amid fears that the unseasonably warm weather will make people complacent about social distancing.  This time in 2014, I was in Penzance on holiday. It was my first visit to Cornwall, and I hope it won’t...
A Win-Win situation

A Win-Win situation

I went along to Winchester Writers’ Festival last week – not to attend the talks, but to share a sales table with fellow writers Jude Hayland, Sue Russell and Elspeth Tavaci.  Although we all write quite different sorts of material, we got on like a house...

A first time for everything

“I’m a writer, that’s what I do. I write.  I DON’T give talks, I DON’T go on the radio, I DON’T do interviews!” Think again. If you’re a self-published author,  you can’t give up on your book the minute it’s...

Blogging for beginners

I started this blog without really knowing what I was doing. Imagine my delight, then, when I saw that Strode College in Street – not far from where I live – was running a 2-day course on WordPress as part of their summer school programme. What an...