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• May 27, 2022

  Haphazard and The Munchkins.

  My new regime of posting three posts a month has fallen at the first hurdle. Basically, I ran out of time to give each one the attention it deserved. The worst was the Tom Pears, what I’m reading post. It went out before I wrote up the review, my fault entirely. I will leave the…

• April 9, 2022

  Don’t Eat the Daisies!

  Amalie, my main character in the children’s books I write, would have known how to forage, as finding, cooking, growing food were the primary tasks for everyone before supermarkets. She would have known from an early age which plants tasted good and which were poisonous. Perhaps she even cooked food using verbally handed-down recipes from…

• April 1, 2022

  The End of the March Middle Grade Book Promotion.

  March was a mad month with loads of learning, writing, leaping into the unknown, and not necessarily in that order. I belong to a pro-active, friendly Facebook group for middle-grade authors. Rae Knightly, a talented author and group member, volunteered to organise the March Middle Grade Book Promotion. At the time, I didn’t have a…

• March 8, 2022

  It Never Rains But it Pours!

  Amalie’s Perilous Adventure I’d re-published Amalie’s Perilous Journey on the 26th of February after a rewrite and re-edit and I was feeling pretty good with my achievement. The re-doing was because I wasn’t happy with where the original Amalie story began or ended, but now I am, and I hope you’ll love the new version…

• February 10, 2022

  Destruction by Water

• January 9, 2022

  Marmalade and Toast

• December 20, 2021

  Temp roof of my She-shed.

• November 25, 2021

  From ruin to writing room

• November 25, 2021

  From a ruin to a writing room.

• September 1, 2021

  Blackberry Jam