The fabulous RNA Winter Party, 2013

It’s becoming a habit of mine, putting up photographs after each RNA event, but the events are so enjoyable that I want an excuse to look at them again, and I want a permanent reminder so that I can return to them in the future. Indulge me, therefore, and allow...

Finally, my RNAConf13. Indeed, as they say, better late …

The RNA Conference 2013 took place in the middle of July in Sheffield, at a conference centre called The Edge, situated in Sheffield University’s Endcliffe Village. As always, it was a superb conference – very inspiring and I came away full of new ideas. Once...

Kansas City, there I went.

MANIC! That’s the word that springs to mind when I think of the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention, held in Kansas City, Missouri, from which I returned last week. MANIC and FUN!! There was so much on, both day and night, that it’s hard to remember all...

The ChipLitFest, of course

  I thought I’d begin today’s blog with a photo taken in the Green Room of the Chipping Norton Literary Festival, which was held 18-21 April. The Green Room is where the speakers and organisers gather between giving talks and leading workshops. As you...

Inches away from Judy Dench & Ben Whishaw.

Judy Dench and Ben Whishaw, on the stage together, a cast made in Heaven, and me in the front row of the stalls. Bliss.   The chance meeting of elderly Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the real-life inspiration for Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland,...