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• 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…

• 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,…