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• July 9, 2021

  The Rise of the She-Shed.

  Because the weather so far this month has been mild, we’ve been able to get outside and continue building my She-Shed. Even though the trend, since lockdown, has encouraged those who have to work from home, to erect a timber room in the garden, mine was in the planning stage long before anyone thought of…

• December 7, 2020

  Yay, Nay and Lockdown.

  Yay, I’ve completed my first draft of Gelvira the Goth, The Barbarian Chronicles: Book 1. A girl with horse adventure story for upper middle-grade readers. (about 9-13) No magic, just skills, guts and determination. It’s set in the 5th Century A.D. and revolves around a small tribe of Visigoths driven out of their village by…

• July 10, 2020

  Lining up my Ducks.

  When I wrote my first draft for a NaNoWriMo challenge in 2011, I never imagined how difficult and complicated the journey to publication would be. My draft, Mrs Brown, gathered dust in a drawer for several years, begging me to publish. I ignored it and left it to languish some more and I finally dusted…

• March 2, 2020

  Manuscripts Drafted.

  I’ve finished, probably only step two in a long list of steps, but I’ve finished. Mrs. Brown, the first novel I ever wrote, she went off to my editor, Andrea, this morning. Part of her also went off to the lovely Lorraine for her cover to be created. I’ve also finished the first draft of…