A Dangerous Heart. Yes, what else?

It’s impossible to describe the feeling when you see for the first time your name on the cover of a published book. It’s a FANTASTIC moment! I wish such a moment on everyone who’s working on what they hope will be their first publication –...

Advice, please!

This is a plea for advice about vocabulary to use when writing novels set in the past. In the last few weeks, I’ve been pulled up three times about words I’ve used in my current work in progress, A Bargain Struck. Two of the criticisms are correct,...

The Ox Lunch

It’s early days in the life of this blog, and in a way I’m still introducing myself. In my first blog, in which I linked to three posts I’d written before, I introduced me, the author. In last week’s blog, which focused on the presentation of...

At the presentation of the 2012 RoNA Awards

As the title of my blog suggests, I’m going to be writing about my world, or, to put it another way,  I shall be jotting down bits & pieces about my life – and about writing – from week to week. I’m a writer so it’s not surprising...