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• 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…

• November 9, 2020

  Fight like a Girl

  Fight Like a Girl by Aiki Flinthart My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow, just what I needed when I needed it. Aiki’s book Fight like a Girl is brilliant and a must for all authors, filmmakers, directors to understand the way a female thinks and fights or defends herself in a conflict. It’s not…

• October 8, 2020

  Amalie, Autumn and Winning.

  Amalie, my Bronze Age girl with pony adventure story, is out in the big wide world. The kindle version is available from your nearest Amazon online bookstore. The paperback is in the work in progress stage. The cover created on my screen doesn’t look, unfortunately, the same as the real-life, physical cover, it needs more…

• September 22, 2020

  Pre-order Day

  Amalie, my bronze age girl with horse survival adventure story for tweens, is up for pre-order on Amazon. It is book one in the Bronze Age series: A perilous journey. Priced at £2.99 in the UK, $3.99 in the US and €2.99 in Europe. She hasn’t taken as long to write as Mrs Brown did,…

• August 14, 2020

  Publish Day!

  My heart is in my mouth as I write this blog. Mrs Brown, kindle version, will be published today. Please press the blue link to access your nearest Amazon store if you want to buy my book. It has been a journey of prevarication, nerves, new skills and set-backs and these don’t even cover the…

• August 11, 2020

  Three Close Shaves in a week.

  Arriving at Wednesday unscathed, after experiencing three possible calamities, I consider myself fortunate. The first happened on Sunday, I decided to continue with my young horse’s training in the outdoor arena which is little more than a weedy sand area surrounded by crooked posts but it sounds good. A few exercises in hand and practice…

• July 27, 2020

  Coming Soon

  On the 14th of August 2020, my first novel, Mrs Brown, will be published on Amazon. To begin with, there will only be the kindle version. The paperback will be available after I’ve received and checked a proof copy and the audio version, winter 2020. An article I came across by accident on the internet…

• 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…

• November 1, 2019

  New Workhorse

  My new (refurbished) laptop arrived yeaterday. I am over the moon with it. It is a Lenovo Ideapad with hospital grade keyboard. I’m not sure if this is a good thing for a writer or not. I assume if I write about a murder and want to act it out, my keyboard will be safe.…