The original idea of this page was to provide information and background relating to my published books, and there is quite an interesting story behind this one. During an amicable conversation with my first publisher, I confirmed I hadn’t received an email which she was sure her assistant had sent me, and her comment ‘It …
Tag: writing
Writers, authors and changes.
I never really appreciated the difference between saying ‘I’m a writer’ and saying ‘I’m an author.’ I assumed an author had a published book to their name and a writer was striving towards that goal. Thinking back, that was rather a narrow-minded view and even Google offers different interpretations, including the transition to being called …
Lucy Fox
Do you like children’s stories? Even if your own little ones are too old for them now, you might have grandchildren who you need to get away from their devices for a while. There again, you might be ever so old and just enjoy reading them for yourself. Shush, don’t tell anyone. ‘Mum, tell me …
George and Mary
Is it sad when a comedian laughs at his/her own jokes or is it a sign they are actually funny? As you might know by now, as well as my published books, I also write short stories in a variety of genres. Although they are fictional, many of them have a basis in fact as …
Juggling
I’ve been trying to handle so many different things lately, I feel I’ve joined the circus. First up was assisting an elderly friend with some government on-line form filling. Name, address, mobile telephone number all quite straightforward - or so I thought. To confirm identity a code was sent to the mobile number which then …
Reviews and ABC
Authors are a funny lot and often have a way of connecting things which on the surface are totally unrelated. In a convoluted way I moved from enjoying an Elvis tribute artists’ show on Facebook, to explaining the scenario of one of my books to an elderly man who doesn’t read English. Would you believe …
Changes and More Changes
Being an author involves wearing many different hats, and with future changes afoot I started thinking back to how it all began. Perhaps it was no coincidence my first book was called ‘Changes.’ As a total newcomer to the publishing world, I assumed every author used a pen-name, so a family nickname became my new …
Links and catch-ups
A lot has been happening this week. I was delighted to be featured as a guest on ‘Lost Books of Lockdown.’ It’s the first time I’ve done an online video so it was quite scary but Nikki Vallance was a delightful host, and I enjoyed every minute we were chatting. Shame about the 'lockdown look' …
The Story behind ‘Country Boy.’
Last week I posted the background to how my latest release 'Alderslay' came into being. It struck me each of my books has a story behind the story so today is the turn of ‘Story of a Country Boy.’ Although ‘Story of a Country Boy’ is a work of fiction, it does contain many elements …
The history behind ‘Alderslay.’
I started writing this story about seven or eight years ago, and it was intended to be the follow-up to my first book ‘Changes.’ Although Changes was a romance, (since republished as ‘Summer Changes, Winter Tears,’) I wanted to try a darker genre and ‘Murder of Changes,’ as it was originally known, is more of …
