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• July 4, 2021

  Auntie’s Legacy

  “It’s fine, auntie won’t know and anyhow, what’s the point of having a beach-hut if we can’t use it?” said Libby, rummaging in her enormous bag. The one mum and dad brought back from their trip to Acapulco. A lurid green and yellow stripe with a pink umbrella printed on the front.“But, Libby. Suppose she…

• June 9, 2021

  The Wrong Knickers and Research.

  I’ve been itching since forever to get down to the south-west point of Galicia and visit the Castro at A Guarda. It’s the place where Amalie meets up with the boatmen from her village and collects her goods to sell. Although there are many photographs of the stone houses, ruined and reconstructed, on the internet,…

• June 4, 2021

  The Mogard

  Joel first noticed it Monday on his way home from school. He’d been kicking lumps of concrete along the weed choked path behind the shops, and muttering dark retributions under his breath. ‘It wasn’t my fault. I was chucking it into the bin. How could I know Miss Evans would walk in at that moment.’…

• May 4, 2021

  The Longing on Pre-Order.

  Whoo hoo! The Longing is available for pre-order from your local Amazon online store. It will be available in ebook and paperback formats and to read for free on Kindle Unlimited from the publication date 7th May. Not too long to wait. In my previous blog post I read the first chapter as a taster,…

• March 8, 2021

  Podcasts

  I received an invitation, along with millions of others, to link my blog to a podcasting company, Anchor.fm. Participating in podcasting has been on my to-do list for about three years, for me a natural progression from writing to reading stories out loud, and, as a bonus, reaching a wider audience. I found the post-cast…

• March 4, 2021

  Jacqueline Vincent Children’s Author

  Thank you to S Bush for the invitation to write for her blog, The Good Life in Galicia, about my children’s stories. A combination of my passion for horses, a love of Enid Blyton’s adventure stories, and a fascination for history inspired me to write my first book for children. Amalie, A Perilous Journey, The…

• March 3, 2021

  Thank you

  I want to say a big thank you to Sophie Bush for asking me to contribute to the Good life in Galicia blog, it is an honour. I so enjoy writing for the annual anthology and seeing my and other author’s work in print. She gives us a great opportunity to get short pieces out…

• February 9, 2021

  A Dilemma.

  I keep my horses at a farm with nineteen other horses, sixteen cows and a bull, three dogs, four cats and several chickens. They all live in semi-liberty, out for most of the time but with access to shelter, if needed. The owner of this almost paradise is Candy, a hardworking, valiant, wonderful human being.…

• January 8, 2021

  Happy Epiphany or Day of the Three Kings.

  I know it’s a bit late. This year El dia de los Reyes, because of Covid restrictions, was a little different. The Kings came to the villages, and the locals waved from their windows. There were no processions, no arrival by steam train, which is the tradition here in Monforte, my hometown, and no sweets…

• December 26, 2020

  FREE! on Kindle e-books.

  Amalie, my girl with horse Bronze Age adventure story, is FREE on Kindle E-Books for two days only, 26th & 27th December. A free treat at Christmas for tween and teen readers. Amalie, orphaned, and her horse, Roble, take on a perilous journey to the coast. Wolves, thieves, rugged terrain test her skills, courage and…