A Writer’s Road: What I Read in 2024

Happy New Year everyone! Like all years, 2024 was full of losses and gains. Over the decades that I’ve been writing these blog posts, I’ve learned that looking back on the prose books I’ve read over the past year has helped me think about where I have been and where I...
What I Read This Year

What I Read This Year

What a busy year! Lots of big changes and growth for my educational charity, Writing Through. After too long, my new novel which finishes off my Cambodian Trilogy, is completed and sitting patiently among friends in my publisher’s queue. I’ve traveled back...
International Literacy Day

International Literacy Day

International Literacy Day really snuck up on me this year. I must admit, the calendar is full of random celebratory days and I tend to ignore most of them (although my favorite might be International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19 — ooh, ooh,...