I’m rounding off the year with the release of MIDLIFE NEWS (Druid Heir Book 3) 💖🥳🥂 MIDLIFE NEWS features: 💜 A powerful woman in her midlife 💜 Action adventure 💜A pack of wolves 💜A treachery of ravens 💜 Gods and goddesses 💜The dark side of London 💜A slow-burn romance sub-plot The e-book is exclusive to… Read More Release Day: Midlife News, Druid Heir Book 3
Let’s have a big hooray and a shimmy for Georgina Stancer, who is In the Armchair today! She’s a fellow English author and writes Paranormal Romance. I’m hoping her answers are as raunchy as her book covers <3. Georgina and I run a Paranormal reader group called Divining Tales together on Facebook, along with other… Read More In the Armchair: Georgina Stancer
Families are busy making Christmas preparations as colder, darker days draw in here in London. There are wreaths going up on front doors, houses dressed in twinkling lights, pantomime tickets being booked, Christmas trees lugged in and decorated, and the constant ring of the doorbell as gifts arrive for loved ones. If this sounds familiar,… Read More Is there a perfect Christmas or do you grin and bear it?
It’s here! This came around so quickly. Today’s the release day for MIDLIFE TREMORS (Druid Heir Book 2) 💖🥳🥂 MIDLIFE TREMORS features: 💜 A woman finally understanding her own power 💜 Found family 💜 Action adventure 💜 A Celestial Library 💜 Magical trials 💜 A dragon 💜 A slow-burn romance sub-plot The e-book is… Read More Release Day: Midlife Tremors, Druid Heir Book 2
Please give a warm welcome to T.J. Deschamps, who will be sitting In the Armchair today. She’s fun, fierce and a fellow author of Paranormal Women’s Fiction. She also writes Fairytale Retellings and SciFi. Tammy and I met recently through the 20 Books author forum on Facebook, and now run a Paranormal reader group called… Read More In the Armchair: T.J. Deschamps
I’ve been so busy squirrelling away on my current manuscript that I forgot to do a cover reveal for Midlife Tremors, book 2 of Druid Heir which is releasing in little over a week! The covers of Druid Heir are by Maria Spada and I am in love with her work. I hope you like… Read More Cover Reveal: Midlife Tremors (Druid Heir Book 2) plus New Reader Group
I’m delighted to welcome Mary Rowen to sit in the armchair today. Mary and I met during the early days of Twitter, and a few years later came to write literary fiction/women’s fiction for Evolved Publishing. She is kind, generous and talented, and her stories are brave and hopeful, with exquisite characterisation. After the interview,… Read More In the Armchair: Mary Rowen
It’s finally here! Today’s the release day for MIDLIFE DAWN (Druid Heir Book 1) 💖🥳🥂 Thanks to all who have bought it already and have reviewed it! 🤓📘😘 The e-book is exclusive to Amazon and is also available in Kindle Unlimited. The paperback is available wide, and for UK book lovers, my favourite retailer is Hive,… Read More Release Day: Midlife Dawn, Druid Heir Book 1
I’m so excited to reveal the cover of Midlife Dawn, the first novel in my Druid Heir series! This beauty was designed for me by the wonderful Maria Spada. It’s going to be published on 31 October, so not long to go! Blurb Shivers of excitement shot up my spine. It was time… Read More Cover Reveal, MIDLIFE DAWN (DRUID HEIR BOOK 1)
I’m so excited to share my secret project with you. During the pandemic I decided to write something lighter. Fantasy is a natural fit. I wanted to write something where the heroine is saving the world, not just surviving it. That’s when I discovered Paranormal Women’s Fiction. It’s a cross of urban fantasy, mystery… Read More Secret Project Reveal: Druid Heir Series
I have a wonderful guest to introduce to you for In the Armchair. L. Spooner just completed work on the audiobook for my second literary fiction novel, Hidden Colours. It’s a circus novel set in Berlin, with a wide cast of diverse characters and when I read about L. Spooner’s acting background and heard their… Read More In the Armchair: Audiobook Narrator L. Spooner
I’m thrilled to tell you that the audiobook of my literary fiction novel Hidden Colours, narrated by L. Spooner, has been released on Audible. This version has been a long time coming and it means a lot to me for the novel to get a second life this way. This story has my heart. It’s your chance to… Read More Release Day: Hidden Colours Audio Book
Our littlest has always been an early riser. Of our three children, he took the longest to sleep through the night. Even now, after a day at nursery, he needs body contact. He’ll run to our legs, cling on and laugh when we try and shake him off, squeeze us fiercely. Most mornings he leaps into… Read More Finding his Wings
Happy International Women’s Day to you and to all the wonderful women in our lives: the ones who we learn from, dance with, who stand by us every day, whom we admire from afar and whose shoulders we cry on. This is a poem I wrote for IWD21. Word of warning about the profanity in it…… Read More Sticks and Stones: A New Poem for International Women’s Day 2021
I’m 39 years old and I’m sensitive. It’s a quality that I’ve been aware of most of my life and one my parents often thought of as a flaw. To some, sensitive often means over-sensitive. It means we need to toughen up. To protect ourselves from waves of emotion. Feeling too much can complicate relationships… Read More On Emotional Range During the Pandemic
My mind is foggy. I finally found the time to unravel my thoughts here at the computer, where the rhythm of the keyboard helps me think. Home-learning started again today. I put the edits for my next book aside and helped our 8 year old with his lessons. Tomorrow, our 11 year old’s home-learning starts,… Read More Forced Change and New Year’s Wishes
This week, I missed my grandmother’s touch. I didn’t hug my mum or kiss my dad’s cheek. I didn’t invite my auntie to come in for a cup of tea. I didn’t lean in to touch a friend who is hurting. I didn’t visit grieving family friends. Have we ever needed the solace of touch… Read More On the Loss of Touch
Six months since I was last at my desk in a quiet house. Six months since the pandemic drove the world to close borders and ground planes and shut people in their homes. Six months during which close to a million people globally have died from coronavirus. And now, in England, a tightening of lockdown… Read More The Lost Months
I’m sitting here in our library, with the clothes dryer whirring next to me. This room is no longer the domain of the kids’ toys and our books. It’s a temporary kitchen now, too, during lockdown, while our building work has been paused. We could have moved the books upstairs but this room would have… Read More Isolation and Writing
I have someone special to introduce to you for today’s instalment of In the Armchair. Reena and I have been online friends for a few years. I came to know her mostly through the brilliant short fiction she shares on Twitter. She’s one of those people whose timeline is filled with honesty and beauty. Twitter… Read More In the Armchair: Reena Dobson