May 23My Canine friend - Sammy Mayo 2009 - 2022After hearing the sad news of Sammy's passing this morning I wanted to share the interview I did with him for my newsletter back in...
May 6The books that stay in my headThis is an updated version of a previous blog post with an updated list of books. I have read a lot of books in my life and some of them...
Mar 183 Essential Reasons Why You Should Summarize Your WIP by K M AllanAt the tail-end of any writing project, it’s not uncommon to feel as if you’ve read your work-in-progress a million times. By this stage,...
Mar 11Stories from StorleyThe stories I write are all set in a fictional area that I based on an amalgamation of places I know. As these are works of fiction I...
Feb 25The joys of writing fiction for kids – and reading it to them! by Cheryl BurmanI grew up on Disney, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Enid Blyton’s Wishing Chair books and Narnia, among other odds and ends...
Jan 21Look after youThere's probably nothing new here. I basically put together a list of things I have learned from talking to people, reading, listening to...
Jan 7The things I doI mentioned previously that I hadn't applied what I had learned in terms of goal setting and execution when I set my 2021 goals. I...
Dec 24, 2021The Gifts of ChristmasI have my Christmas presents already. They can't sit under the tree and I won't be unwrapping them. They are rather large to carry and...
Dec 17, 2021The Lily'sFirst all the books in these awards were read by me in 2021 but could have been published at any time up to and including 2021 (with the...
Nov 12, 2021The Merry Land of MarketingMarketing is not something I have given much thought to before now. I published both my books without a marketing plan. I announced their...