Digging
Tomorrow my latest novel, Closer to Home, will be published. It’s been available to order for just over a week and I’ve been watching...
Let it rain!
It’s raining. It’s been raining for most of the summer. May was okay and there were some dry spells in July but mostly it’s been...
Mental Health
As it’s Mental Health Awareness Week this week I thought I’d write something a bit different for my blog. A few years ago I was...
Chopping and Changing
A couple of weeks ago I finished the second draft of the novel that I’ve been working on since last summer. It finally reached the stage...
What's in a name?
I find deciding on names for my characters to be a complex business. Main characters tend to already have their own names when they...
Reviews
I’d like to start this blog post by saying a huge thank you to everybody who has read one of my books and then taken the time to write a...
What a year!
Yesterday somebody from my local newspaper phoned me up to ask about my latest book. It was a bit out of the blue as they’d expressed an...
Exercise
An author colleague posted recently on Facebook that she’d been for a walk and it had helped her to sort through her ideas for a new...
Eeek!
On April 30th this year I was a nervous wreck. My debut novel, ‘Forgotten’ was due to be released the following day. I’d spent most of...
Borderlines
When I moved to Carlisle, more than twenty years ago, I was surprised to find that it was lacking some of the cultural venues that might...
