The More You Use It
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. A favourite Maya Angelou quote. She’s right, of course, phenomenal woman, great thinker, savvy human being that she was. I am...
Tagged: Books
A New Book Begins
There’s nothing quite like making the decision to get working on another book and putting that decision down on paper. All my books begin life in notebooks, sometimes they languish for a long time...
Buy My Books & Support A Small But Mighty Rescue
Since adopting Susie-Belle in 2011 and beginning to write about our life together, I’ve wanted to use my writing to help dogs like her. Dogs which experience an unbelievable amount of cruelty and neglect...
Did Somebody Say Walk?
I’m delighted to announce that my second children’s book is now completed. Well, I say mine, I should really say OUR book as for the second time, I’ve teamed up with illustrator Annabel Wilson...
Is Talking Money Still Taboo? Too Bad If So…
There’s nothing like doing end of year accounts to make me remember just how much I dislike sitting in front of a computer to input numbers and not words. I was a terrible maths...
Maya Makes People’s Book Prize Finals
Last week saw my latest book, ‘Saving Maya’, reaching the People’s Book Prize finals. I’m absolutely delighted – and touched – by the incredible comments from readers who have got the book this far...
Book Review – Unconditional
“You’re never too old, too sick, too poor, too anything to find joy. I find it every day with my Chloe.” The words of wheelchair-bound Waymon Simmons of his 9 year old Pekingese with...
Who Doesn’t Love A Bargain?
Traditionally January is a month of sales and bargain grabs. And when it comes to books this is the time of year I tend to restock my ‘to be read’ pile for the year...
Blue Cross Backs ‘Saving Maya’
It’s been a busy week, mostly spent hammering out words for my self-imposed month-long NaNoWriMo challenge. It’s not going well, which doesn’t surprise me as it’s a complete reverse way of writing to how...
Be Like An Icelander Give Maya This Christmas
If I suggested being like an Icelander, I wonder what springs to mind? Before I go down a road of stereotyping a nation of just over 300,000 people, I’ll mention just one great, Icelandic...