This week I started writing my seventh novel for my publishers, Lake Union Publishing. . . and I would describe my current professional state as anxious. You would think that I’d have got the hang of this by now. After all, this will be the fourteenth book that I have penned in the last ten years, and whilst I would…
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Don’t look down!
Nobody likes to be criticised.
You know what it’s like, I’m sure. You do your best work, take a step back and admire what you’ve achieved. You might even allow yourself a smug moment of pride in a job well done.
Why I do a runner from parties.
It doesn’t matter how much I want to go to a party. I will always end up leaving early.
Going grey gracefully
Almost exactly one year ago I decided to stop dyeing my hair. This is how it’s going so far. You can see from the photos of me across the rest of this site that previously my hair was dyed to a rich conker-brown which was an approximation of how I looked back when my skin was smooth and my hair…
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From dreaming to doing
In 2010, I had a dream that I wrote a book. So when I woke up that’s just what I did. Ok. You got me. To be fair, it wasn’t quite like that. First I had to come up with an idea for the plot and then learn how to actually do it but in essence that’s what happened. And…
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