The Magic That Comes From Writing About Resilient Characters #AmWriting

July 5, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Last year I wrote a post on how writing about characters who reinvent themselves can spark a change in your own life. Back then writing about Pippa’s transformation in my book, Instructions For Falling In Love Again, had sparked enormous change in my own life. My post questioned whether writing about change had this magic ability to […]

#BookReview A Sunset in Sydney @sandybarker #HolidayRomance #mustread

July 3, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Don’t you just love an author who can read your mind? At the end of the first book in this series, One Summer in Santorini, I was secretly hoping Sandy Barker’s heroine, Sarah Parsons, would ‘test’ out her two love interests for me so that I could see which one she should choose. I won’t […]

Why Some Stories We Write Are Like Bridges To Other Stories #AmWriting #MondayBlogs

June 28, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’ve seen too many writers on social media talking about deleting stories that don’t work. The thought of stories being deleted makes me shiver. So, this post and last week’s post are part of my one woman campaign titled: nothing is wasted when it comes to writing. Some of our stories will have potential, but […]

The Joy That Comes From Viewing Shelved Writing Projects As Jigsaw Pieces 🧩 #AmWriting

June 21, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

This post is for writers like me that write a lot and shelve a lot. Some writers I know rarely give up on a story and stay with it until the bitter end. Sadly I am not one of these writers. Underneath my writing desk I have boxes of notebooks filled with half finished, shelved […]

#BookReview The Summer of Taking Chances @LynneB1 #SummerReading

June 14, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

I really enjoyed this book about Emma and Jake being reunited again ten years after he broke her heart. I love the second chances trope in romance so I was ready for this. Plus I had never read anything by Lynne Shelby before. Overall it was a good and uplifting read. I also think there […]

10 Signs You Are Ready To Start Writing Your Book 📚 #Writing

June 13, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

This post for anyone out there who has always secretly dreamed of writing a book and has spent a lifetime putting it off. You can try to ignore it all you want. Feed yourself silly excuses like you have never written a book before. Deny you want to write a book. Tell yourself it is […]

Things To Consider When Making Your Characters Suffer #MondayBlogs

June 7, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Have you ever had to inflict pain and suffering onto one of your much loved fictional characters? Have you ever reluctantly tipped a bucket full of life crap over two characters who have just found true love and as you you were doing it felt like you were betraying two old friends? Have you ever struggled […]

Writing Romance? Check Out This – 5 Things About Writing Kisses @KileyDunbar #MondayBlogs

May 31, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

I am so excited about this post. As a huge fan of all things romantic and someone who gets very carried away at the sight of any romance, within a ten mile radius, this blog post is going to leave me lying on my sofa with a cold compress on my forehead. Today we are […]

#BookReview Blackbirch @KMAllan_writer #UrbanFantasy #yabooks #witchesandmagic

May 30, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

I really enjoyed reading K.M. Allan’s debut novel and I wanted to shout about it on my blog. This is not my normal genre for a book review but I do devour these types of books when I am on a romance book reading holiday. This book is a wonderul concoction of dark secrets, witchcraft […]

Writing My Second Novel: Things I Have Learned About Myself #MondayBlogs

May 25, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Writing my second novel has been a ferocious two-year battle consisting of two strong-willed opponents; me versus my mind. My second novel (working title: Meet Me in Blue Cove Bay) is not finished by any means but one stage of this great battle has ended; after two years I have finally finished writing the story […]