A new sunrise

Greetings from the great beyond! Firstly can I apologise for the non-existent posts over the last year or so. My life has taken a dramatic twist and I am still running to keep up with it all. After many years of crying and stalking publishers on the net, I had my first short story published.

Don’t Do That! – Five for Friday

I’m running so late today. It’s been a frantic week as we’ve had builders working on the house. ‘The noisy one’, was sent home from school with chronic earache and ‘The bitey one’, is teething and as a result, extra bitey. He has also become a fan of early wake up calls, the most recent being

The Fun of the Fair – Friday Fictioneers

Hello Everybody, It’s been a while 🙂 Here’s my contribution to Friday Fictioneers, I hope you enjoy it. Thank you to Ted Strutz for the image today. And also thank you to the lovely Rochelle for running the challenge. If you’d like to have a go, pop onto her page and take a look at

Why perspectives are like shoes.

Have you ever bought a pair of shoes/trainers/clogs? They are the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen (maybe not the clogs). You tried them on in the shop and gloried at how they looked. ‘Wooden Shoes’ by Bill Longshaw, courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net You get them home, get on your matching dress/jeans/lederhosen. Place them on your

10 Things I haven’t done yet!

As part of the “Writing 101” course, we’ve been asked to write a list. So here’s my list (by no means complete), of things I haven’t done yet 🙂 Image courtesy of Photl.com Stuff chocolate cake in my mouth and then smile at a stranger. Finish my book. (Or, in fact, any project that I

How do you do it?

With pen and paper? Straight to screen? With a sparkler…or perhaps an Enigma machine for the extremely paranoid? Each writer has their own preferred method of working. Stephen King writes longhand onto yellow legal pads. J K Rowling writes longhand then transfers it to screen – editing as she goes. George R. R. Martin writes

Apologies…again!

I’m officially the worst blogger…ever!!!! The bathroom is done! We’ve the cleared the clutter! So I enrolled on the Blogger 201 course and settled down to a great two weeks of stretching myself and my blog. But with the school holidays already in full swing, my kids had other ideas! I have three wonderfully, crazy boys.

Liebster Award!

  Thank you to Alimoongoddess who nominated me. I’ve been ill all weekend and  been lying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself, so this has been the first chance I’ve had to post. Here are the rules: 1. Link the person who nominated you to your blog post and let them know you answered their

Blogs, blogs everywhere…

…and not enough time to read! There are so many great blogs on here and I’m spending so much time on the Reader, I think I’m on the cusp of a new obsession. Day 8 of ‘blogging 101’ asks us to comment on four blogs we’ve never commented on before. So I decided to log