All About Dogs Show
I am soon heading to the UK to join friends at the biggest ever All About Dogs Show in Newbury Showground. Held over two days – Easter Sunday and Monday, 17-18 April – the...
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Shifting thoughts and word counts
Here I am, writing my way out of a grey place I’ve been caught in since December. Since Renae’s short illness and sudden, terminal departure from my life. It’s two months now that I...
Book Review: Wag
I get excited by books. I have more books in my home than I’m ever likely to read. When my ‘to be read’ piles – they’re more like stacks – threaten to topple over,...
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...
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...
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...