When I first started writing fiction 15 years ago, I embraced the writing community. I joined groups and attended workshops. And when I stopped writing, I stopped going. Luckily some of those people I met stuck with me. One of them is mystery writer and podcaster, Liz Mugavero. Liz and I met at the Seascape …
It’s amazing how inspiration can find you at exactly the right time. Just today, I was feeling angry about a whole range of things – the road workers who blocked access to my house last night, IT people who just don’t understand what you’re saying even when you speak slowly and in words of one …
It was Mother’s Day yesterday and that makes me think about my life. As you know I have just published my first novel and if I’m honest there are parts of it that are hard to read. The mother and daughter parts, mainly. Sure, we authors make up stories. But we all mine our own …
I’ve finally done it. I have published my first book. This journey began about 15 years ago, when I realised I had said three times that I was going to write a book. Then I felt compelled to act. It didn’t take me that long to write a first draft. I joined writers’ groups and …
