Three weeks since publication, the reviews are still popping up: The Amazon reviews keep coming, thank you to those who took the time. Author Amanda Jennings wrote a post called ‘When Other Authors Inspire You’. There’s an exclusive interview with me over on Handbag.com (please note that I’m not writing the screenplay, but the rest […]

It’s that time of year again. The Wirral heat of Pulp Idol, that unique writing competition for unpublished novelists, will take place next Monday (29 April) from 6-8 p.m. at Hope Place, 259 Woodchurch Road, Prenton CH42 9LE. Entrants to the competition will have been allocated a heat to attend. At the heat each writer […]

Six weeks ago, I applied to Arts Council England and the National Lottery for ‘Time to Write’ funding. For those who don’t know, Arts Council England supports arts and culture using money from the government and the National Lottery. I put in an application to grants for the arts, based on a synopsis for my […]

Things are slowing down, I’m catching up. People continue to be lovely about me and about ‘The Drowning of Arthur Braxton’. In the last few days: The hour spent talking to Bookcunt is now a blog post. Here are her thoughts on me. And, I shared a photo and description of my writing space with […]

I’m a little bit obsessed with all things French, novel seven will be set in Paris (novel six will be set in Liverpool). I lived in France when I was eighteen, had an adventure, lost and found myself on the way. One day I’d like to be published in French, it’s on my publishing-wish-list (along […]

So, publication day happened and it was, without a doubt, my most favourite publication day to date. A train to London, a tube to Hammersmith and there I occupied my publisher’s desk (as seen on the photo). A Twitter take over, signing a huge pile of books, being interviewed by Bookcunt and then a phone […]

It’s Wednesday evening, it’s the night before the official publication date, it’s already been quite a week. Last night was the Liverpool launch of The ‘Drowning of Arthur Braxton’. Littlest made me smile when she talked about the evening, amazed that everywhere she looked there were smiling people. I like that that’s how she’ll remember […]

It’s Publication Week! I might have to pinch myself that it’s here already, I might be a bit tearful as I realise that I’m a published author again. And today marks the start of a busy week. I’ve got the Liverpool launch on Tuesday evening, then I’ll travel down to London on Thursday morning. I’ll […]

One week until the publication of ‘The Drowning of Arthur Braxton’ and the anxiety dreams are coming in full force. Perhaps it’s wrong to say that they offer me comfort, but they do. I quite like waking in a panic, believing that only three people will be at my launch, thinking that there’s a page […]