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I remember, quite clearly, the day I knew that magic, fairy tales and fairy creatures were real. I was 5 years old and my mother took me to see a stage production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. It must have been a birthday present (my birthday is at the end of...

I read this quote on Facebook: Being a good neighbour is treating someone like a brother or a sister. At first reading it sounds great. I congratulated the young man on his wisdom and thought he'd come up with a very nice variation on the original saying: Treat others...

I wonder if the books we get read to us when we're very young, and which we first read when we're able to do it for ourselves, set the "preferred genre" button in our brains. I've always loved fairy stories, myths and legends and the more dragons, the better. However,...

I've been asked what I learned at the giggle of writers last week so here goes. We writers must use social media to promote our work and to build our 'brand'. (Not sure what my brand actually is but I'm hoping it's pink and fabulous.) To get in the thick of it we're...

I didn't do a blog last week so I thought I'd better not miss another one. But...the thing is... I'm off to a giggle of writers in about half an hour so I haven't given myself much time to do this. Oh well. I'm sure you'll forgive me if I do a hasty scrawl. My fellow...

The Old Boy, the Wonder Dog and I are on holidays. We're in a cottage/cabin/thing in the middle of cow and sheep country, about 20 minutes as the crow flies from the sea and in the foothills of a national park. (Spoiler alert to all burglars: our house is being...