I am going to be interested to see if anyone else had this rather bizarre school experience. Of course I only think it’s bizarre looking back, at the time it was all perfectly normal. When I started in the lower school of my school, aged 6, I was taught to write with a fountain pen. […]
Springtime for Murder is one of seven books in this cosy mystery series. I started it thinking it was book 1 for some reason but I can confirm, having found out it wasn’t, that it can be easily read as a standalone, as, I believe, can the others in the series. This tale starts […]
I have heard about head-hopping, seen other authors discussing it on blogs and whatnot but had never had to consider it, until now. Everything I’ve published to date has been written in the first person so viewpoint was consistent, and one less thing to deal with. But then I started this current draft and […]
I chose to read this short book as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and the author sent me a copy. This does not affect my review in any way. This book is made up of short stories and flash fiction written by the author somewhere between high school and his mid-twenties. This is […]
Coming up with the names for my characters is always an issue for me. It takes me ages and is often dependent on how I feel about any person with that name that I’ve met in the past. I’m always indecisive about the ones I choose for my characters and during a first draft they […]
I have never given any thought to my chapter headings. Consequently, I have gone about as basic as you can go – Chapter 1, not even Chapter One. And I wonder if I should change that? I have a client who has always named each of his chapters. Actually he puts a number first and […]
I may well be the last person to this but when listening to the AskAlli: Self-Publishing Advice Podcast today, on the Advanced Use of Social Media for Authors, Joanna Penn mentioned Linktree. I’d never heard of it before. I have used various link options over the years from Bit.ly for handy shortened links, then Book […]
This has been the latest thing I’ve tackled in my round of do-overs. My mailing list. I have made so many mistakes with this. And I knew as much, but just hadn’t found the time to sort things out. Recently though I finally got round to reading Newsletter Ninja by Tammi Labrecque, made notes, […]
I’m writing a new series – there, I’ve said it out loud. The plan is for a fairly long series, but should that all go to pot I can make it shorter, even into a trilogy, or quite possibly, at the moment, a standalone. However, they, or it, turns out, though I’m returning to […]
Union Clues is the first book in a series and is set, mostly, in the world of narrowboats and canals, about which I know little. This story is split into three parts, each of which is told in the voice of its main character – Stella, Nancy and Dawn. It is a mystery but […]
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