It’s been a little while since I’ve written anything about my journey of self-publishing. Unsurprisingly, this doesn’t mean nothing’s been happening. On the contrary, things have been bubbling away this end and the most important thing to have happened in the past weeks has been the least expected, an evolution on the mental rather than […]
As we reach the middle of 2017, I thought it would be fun to do a short review of my four favourite reads of the year so far. After all, I am first and foremost a reader, and my love of the written word has, over the years, helped carve my path into writing. So, […]
Friday Fictioneers is a weekly flash fiction writing challenge, hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The challenge is to write a complete short story in 100 words, using the photo prompt as inspiration. Why not have a go at it? It’s certainly challenging, but fun! Here is my offering: Blindwalking ‘Put it away!’ he pleads, my nose […]
In my previous blog charting part 2 of my self-publishing journey, I confessed that I had fallen out of love with my novel in quite a big way and that I was struggling significantly to move forwards with it. Well…I am pleased to say that I have emerged through the other side of what often […]
This blog post is long overdue, but I wanted to mention a new anthology that I feature in! Named Writing Motherhood – A Creative Anthology, this collection has been edited by Carolyn Jess-Cooke and features a chorus of female voices amongst writers and poets on the ‘wonders and terrors’ of motherhood. Encompassing post-natal depression, maternal instincts, miscarriage to […]
When I get the time (the big “when”), I love writing short stories. So what better than to write some flash fiction, which is very short stories. Not long ago I discovered Friday Fictioneers, hosted by an author, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Each week she posts a photograph and writers are invited to contribute a complete piece […]
Ok, time to ‘fess up and give you the second instalment of how I’ve been getting on since I last wrote about my new adventures in self-publishing. (Click here in case you missed that post). First off, my ‘beta reader’, in other words, my trusted reader who will give my finished manuscript the once-over has […]
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner, from Requiem for a Nun Is it possible for behaviours to pass from one generation to another? We all know about genetic inheritance and the chromosomal DNA that is received from our parents; that we may inherit our mother’s aquiline nose, our father’s curly […]
