Welcome to my virtual blog party! After 3 years and 6 months of blood, sweat, tears, endless cups of coffee, 12 drafts, 5 rewrites, many hours spent at the kitchen table, countless time spent gazing out of the window daydreaming, loads of sweaty author nightmares, millions of texts and emails to writers friends, a mind […]
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Imagine this. While getting ready for your church’s Easter Sunday service, you struggle to put down an excellent book. It has been half an hour since you stepped out of the shower and in that time you’ve had your head stuck in Kiley Dunbar’s debut novel and not got out of your polka dot bath […]
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I was busy enjoying a lengthy blog book review break and then I read this! The blog book review itch returned minutes after I finished Rachel Burton’s The Pieces of You and Me. No matter how hard I tried to make the book review itch go away (listening to whale music, relaxing in a cool […]
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When Rachel from Rachel’s RandomResources wrote to me about the Cuttin’ Heads Book Blog Tour I decided to step out of my sweet scented, frilly pink, romance genre comfort zone, join the tour and read D.A. Watson’s book.
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That moment when one of your favourite authors asks you to be part of her blog tour (in my head this is similar to being asked to join a really cool gang) AND then they post you a SIGNED copy of their beautiful new book, which causes you to nearly wet yourself on your doorstep, in front […]
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Have you ever finished a story, thanked your cast of fictional characters for their work, wished them well for their future projects, walked away from the story…only to find one or a few characters refuse to leave you alone for WEEKS / MONTHS / YEARS afterwards? Have you ever had a new character appear in […]
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Prior to reading Lost Boy by Christina Henry, I would have turned my nose up at the thought of reading one of my favourite fairy tales, retold with a darker twist. Favourite fairy tales for me are precious things, which I store in glass cases at the back of my mind. Occasionally I open up […]
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This weekend has been spent clearing out my loft. As we battled against ten years worth of forgotten clutter I came across a few of my old writer notebooks. As I opened them up I did wonder whether they would make me cringe. But they did quite the opposite. Some of my old stories were […]
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We all know the life of a writer is tough. Whether you are published or unpublished days are often spent doing one or more of the following; writing, chucking everything you have written in the bin, rewriting what you’ve retrieved from the bin, editing, getting carried away with best seller day dreams, rewriting again, crying over […]
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Some books come into your life for a reason. I can’t remember how I came to buy this book on my Kindle. It wasn’t a book I went searching for. One day last week it sort of appeared. I know this sounds like I have been eating too much sugar again or I am in […]
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