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Week two of January and already the “newness” of the year is fading. That didn’t take long! Perhaps it’s because I’ve begun work again, editting someone else’s book-that-is-about-to-be-published. Once you switch off the Big Fish...

Hello world! Did you all enjoy seeing in the New Year? For me, the start of a new year reminds me of when I was in school, opening up a brand new exercise book full of blank pages ready to be filled. Ah the anticipation! What shall we scribble on the pages? What...

Christmas Day is two sleeps away. Hanukkah has already begun. New Years will be on us before we know it. I’m having a little break from blogging for the next couple of weeks and it’s highly possible that most people won’t get around to reading this...

This is going to be a bits and pieces blog, today. I hope you can cope with the “collage effect”, but that’s how my brain’s working these days. Re the “book”: An agent has asked to read the whole manuscript. They liked the sample I...

Back in the 90s I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had a mastectomy, 6 months of chemotherapy and five weeks of radiotherapy. The doctor told me that if the cancer came back it would be bad news, because there was no cure for ‘secondaries’. It would...

Son’s wedding on the weekend: gorgeous setting by a rock-pool, with ducks in the creek and roses going mad with colour. It was simply a beautiful, happy, loving, joy-filled day and evening. The reception was lit with a myriad of ‘fairy’ lights and...