‘Time spent with cats is never wasted’ Sigmund Freud I don’t have a cat, the road we live on is far too dangerous for me to risk that heartache but that is the only reason I wouldn’t have one. As I’m writing this I’m on holiday and there are a couple of cats that have […]
As we are staying at the Grand Hotel in the port town of Mgarr, don’t have to make any effort and for the time being are without a car we have decided to take a trip across to Malta and travel onto Valletta, by bus. In hindsight, perhaps this trip wasn’t planned as well […]
When I used to babysit as a teenager I’d scare myself watching Crimewatch by imagining how terrifying it would be to find the doppelganger for one of the photo-fits to be the very person sat on the other end of the sofa to you. The Devil You Know reminded me of those times and it shows […]
Fully organised by the wonderful Malta Choice, yet again (they make my life so easy!), I have just returned from a perfect week (and a bit!) away in Gozo with my better half. I roughly kept a diary, admittedly it did peter out as the holiday progressed, but I thought I’d follow on from the […]
I have put my first novel, A Single Step, onto a promotion called Summer Love, with My Book Cave. At the last count there were 38 romance novels in the promotion all for you to download for free. I know many of you now following this newsletter are doing so because of the last promotion run by […]
Cathy Murray was inspired to write Cabbage and Semolina after witnessing her mother-in-law’s sadly too late attempt to record her own reminiscences. It is a collection of memories of a 1950’s childhood, and it is a delight to read. As I was born in the 1960’s I thought this collection of memories might not mean […]
These are my answers to a fun reading habit post I saw on Linda Huber’s blog, and I thank her for inviting anyone who fancied a go, to take part. Here are my thoughts… Do you have a specific place for reading? No, I can read anywhere but out of necessity most of my reading […]
I don’t generally accept books to review, deciding instead to simply review what I choose to read, but in this case I made an exception. I was contacted by Publishing Push and then by the author herself and although my main reasoning for saying yes then was that the book was only 52 pages long, […]
I have read all of the anthologies produced by the students of this creative writing course and am always amazed at the quality of the work produced by, often, first time writers, and in such a short period of time. In each of these anthologies there is always an informative Foreword from the editor, Phil […]
Over two years ago now The Power of our Pets was a guest post on the much missed, A Woman’s Wisdom. Sadly no longer available I’ve reposted it here, and added an update because some of you have been kind enough to ask. ‘When Bodicia invited me to write this guest post I told her I was […]
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