Normally I wouldn’t presume to write a list like this, but I did it for a blog post on a book tour a while back (and for which I have, annoyingly, lost the link) and the material seemed worth sharing so I have reworked some of it here. Hope you find it helpful! 10 Things […]
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I rediscovered this old piece the other day: I wrote it for the Strictly Writing Blog and although, thankfully, my life has moved on a lot since then I think it still stands up so thought I would share it here, also. I hope it helps someone. What happens to your writing when your life […]
When it comes to networking, there are those who seem born to it, working any room like a pro and coming away from any meeting with a ton of contacts and useful leads. As anyone who follows this blog will know, I am not one of those people. This was rammed home to me when […]
I am reading Brené Brown at the moment – rereading, to be honest – and it has got me thinking a lot about her key topics of shame, fear and the ‘hustle of worthiness’. How they apply to freelance and creative lives in general, and to my own experiences, as a working-class woman with a […]
This John Wick riff (illustrated with my Funko, cos of course I have one!) is an example of the kind of fun little scene that I write when I am roughly working out a book. These often get cut because they don’t fit, they were just a sketch, or the story ends up going another way. I usually […]
I can’t quite believe it’s 7 years this month that I rather nervously released my little vampire book into the world! (Not My Little Vampire book, that would be copyright infringement.)What a journey it’s been. A steep learning curve at times, and sometimes frustrating, but watching what started as a short story written hastily to […]
I’ve been very neglectful of my writing of late, as the day job has been insanely busy, which makes it even nicer that a couple of nice pieces of news have arrived. An older short story of mine, inspired by my time as a subtitler, was chosen as story of the month by Byte the […]
