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7th September 2012
Read more: 7th September 2012Every end has a beginning When we started writing our contemporary adult novel in February this year, me and my co-author had quite a clear idea of how the novel would, or could, end, and we had a vague idea of how it would begin. We knew that our main concern would be the protagonist’s journey. We knew who the two…
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24th August 2012
Read more: 24th August 2012Using locations for inspiration ~ a trip down memory lane A year or so ago, I started work on my second novel. Those of you who have read previous blog posts of mine will know that my first novel sits, alone and forlorn, in a drawer of my rather crammed writing cabinet, the writing cabinet that is…
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17th August 2012
Read more: 17th August 2012Where is Grub? Many of you will know about the Ruby and Grub books (well, I hope so… I’d like to think you do), written by yours truly and illustrated by Sarah Warburton, some of whose work you can see here, and published by Piccadilly Press (@PiccadillyPress on Twitter) The series of three books, aimed at 2-6yrs,…
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3rd August 2012
Read more: 3rd August 2012Stop and Think time Yes, I am at that point, the two thirds of the way through the novel point… or rather, me and my co-writer are. We started our adult contemporary novel at the end of February this year, so have had five months working away at it. I had this vague idea in…
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27th July 2012
Read more: 27th July 2012An arty farty tweet up in Matlock Bath Barely a week seems to go by lately without me having some sort of tweet up! I do love my tweet ups! And what better place to have one than the gorgeous Matlock Bath in Derbyshire. If you haven’t been, you really should. It is the seaside…
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13th July 2012
Read more: 13th July 2012A Tweet-up in Winchester This blog very nearly didn’t happen. I’ve only missed one since I started writing it just under a year ago. This week was nearly the second. It is late Thursday eve. I edited this morning, did a workshop this afternoon, have walked the hound (and our ‘on loan’ hound) have cleaned…
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5 July 2012
Read more: 5 July 2012Magical Moments As some of my Twitter followers will know, on Sunday I was struggling with the words. I was trying to work on my work in progress, an adult novel, which currently stands at 57,000 words. I’m not obsessed with my word count, but I do find it helps if I set targets for…
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29 June 2012
Read more: 29 June 2012Down by the river Back in March, I met Twitter and Facebook friend Dean Harkness (@Deanus on twitter) for the first time in Peterborough… we had a fab time! One of the wonderful things about Twitter – that you can make such fab friends as a result of it! At that time, we did a…
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22nd June 2012
Read more: 22nd June 2012Cup of tea My Grandma died 7 years ago of cancer. We were close in that sense of feeling completely comfortable together and being able to share a multitude of things, one of which was a sense of humour, the other being a love of words. Grandma regularly did the crossword and we always played Scrabble…
