From Contract to Shelf: How to Wait

Waiting is the hardest thing, as the old song goes. To be honest, I haven’t looked at the manuscript of my new book for over eight months now! It’s an incredibly long time, though I knew it would be. I knew it was in a queue along with the other...

Heat Wave

Not much to say right now, except…..and a little Kermit thrown in at the end can only help, I always say.PS More serious content will resume in due course — i.e. when it starts to rain again or I get tired of the beach 🙂

From Contract to Shelf: The Cover and the Blurb

We are told not to judge a book by its cover, but we all know that it is the cover which leads us to pick a book off a shelf in the first place. It is the look of a cover which leads us to be intrigued and without that initial intrigue, the brilliant and beautiful...

Island Bound

I’m off to my annual site shift, changing my headquarters from London to Martha’s Vineyard. How lucky can a girl be? I love my beach girl persona, and what better way to prepare myself than to get the Beach Boys on the box? To be honest, I wasn’t a...

When Is It Finished?

thanks to worldteamjourneyAn interesting question for writers which continually rears its annoying head. I had the latest conversation on the topic last week after the performance of Dreams of May and it got me thinking. It’s clear to me that the answer for...

Out of My Comfort Zone

I’m writing this on a rainy Saturday afternoon, looking ahead at what will be a rather crazy, fun, fascinating, exciting and nerve-wracking week. I’m writing this on Saturday because as of tomorrow I won’t have one single moment to raise my head and...
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