Images courtesy of Pixabay
Images courtesy of Pixabay
This is an anthology of stories and poetry written by pupils of Nottingham Free School as part of the ongoing Brilliant Book project. In the case of this book all the Year 8 pupils are keen to become writers or work in fields where writing is necessary. Blue Filters by A G Pillay Oooh, this […]
It’s been a week of ups and downs, like most weeks. Last weekend I started off by writing the blog posts for the week, more or less (the book review and WordlessWednesday) – the book review for Nine Lives was a cheat as you will see if you read it but by happy circumstance the […]
Image courtesy of thecreativepenn.com As I stated in the first post in this series (which you can find here if you missed it) I began listening to some writing and publishing podcasts when I first started my writing career. The one I am going to tell you about today was one I listened to back […]
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When I started this writing caper I decided to review everything I read. I posted those reviews to Amazon in the UK and US (you could in those days without having to spend $50 with them first! #JustSaying!) and Goodreads. It didn’t cross my mind to post them on my blog… duh! As I’m aiming […]
You always want to have a rocking first week, don’t you, with any challenge. I think we can safely say that I have not had one of those. However, I have been incredibly busy. I suppose it wasn’t that wise to have started this at what is the busiest time of year in my day […]
I am delighted to be making an appearance on Teri Polen’s Writer’s Reading Corner today. I get to talk about another author’s book as well as showcasing my own so if you fancy seeing which books I mention, you need to click the link below. The link to take you to the Writer’s Reading Corner
I have listened to podcasts for a long time and when I started writing seriously in 2012 I found a few podcasts to download. However, for reasons that escape me now but I suspect were down to a combination of lack of time, being overwhelmed and a technology update that meant things weren’t set up […]
The competition is fierce, and all the book covers are terrific. But the voting closes on Friday and at the moment it is very, very close between the top 3 books. Parallel Lies is one of those books. The winner of this vote will not only be the ReadFree.ly Book of the Month for May […]