An Author's Notebook

Yesterday was a significant day for me. I sent my new novel out into the world on the wings of an email. The laptop even made that little wh...

Want to hear a secret? Damn right you do! When it comes to other people's business, we have an insatiable curiosity to find out more. Or...

This week I tried something new. I attempted to step inside the right hemisphere of my brain and find my inner peace. Pardon? Yup, you heard...

I hope that you all had a very happy Christmas and I wish you a wonderful New Year! Thank you for reading my blog posts over the past year...

Tuesday night found me discussing my novel, A Sister for Margot , with a book club from Nettlebed. The prospect of talking about my work wit...

My novel, A Sister for Margot , is FREE to download on Amazon this week for three days only. This is your chance to load up your Kindle (o...

If there is one advance in technology that I am most grateful for, it is satellite navigation. Last night my trusty Tom Tom led me from Read...

A few weeks ago Marlow FM radio station invited me onto its Book Club programme to chat about my novel, A Sister for Margot . Other than pro...

The  Birmingham Post  and Sunday Mercury newspapers have written about my new novel,  A Sister for Margot, this week. The focus of both pi...

The news sites  Ibiza Spotlight  and The Ibiza Sun  have both marked the launch of my new novel,   A Sister for Margot . The island of Ibiza...

Women and work. It has never been an easy coupling when you throw children into the mix. Those of us choosing to stay at home are now  domes...

  On a beautiful, sunny day in Ibiza some years back, I started to compose my first novel on a Palm Pilot with an impossibly s...

A bit of window dressing. I am a journalist and writer based in the UK. This is the first post of my first blog. My intent...