Your gentle reminder that: no kindness is too small, because no kindness is actually small. So, last year I started a Ko-fi page partly as an experiment: I wanted to be OK with accepting money for my work, especially all the blogs and stuff I put out for free. I wanted to at least start getting past […]
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One of the things I have tried to do during this crisis is support small and indie businesses and creatives. Despite what our Government wants us to think, this crisis doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon, and the hard truth is some people and businesses will struggle to weather it, especially in the […]
So yesterday, to the delight of fans and the eternal horror of Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer announced she was doing an EL James and releasing Midnight Sun, a Twilight novel told from Edward’s perspective. Admittedly this is only fair, since James – who of course released a book from Christian Grey’s POV) – famously started […]
Another revisited post, yes – but one that feels really necessary right now. Lots of people in the creative industries are struggling with lost income and having to get jobs to supplement their losses – jobs which are often both low paid and time consuming, so leave little time to do anything else. Many will […]
How’s your lockdown going? I admit I envisioned putting all this time to magnificent use – I’d get that book finished, revamp all my websites, write some short stories, finally learn how to pitch an article. And… um, I haven’t done any of those things. I have drank an Oddbins’ worth of wine and eaten […]
Yes, I am shamelessly recycling some of my older posts at the moment. In part because I have zero focus and concentration, in part because (yes, admit this) am trying to keep myself visible and in the market for work, and in part because I feel like so many of us are going through so […]
Guys, writing is hard sometimes. Like, really, really hard. And while a deadline or a paycheque can force you to produce something if your income depends on it, if that’s not the case – and many of us are facing uncertainty around our work at the moment – it can be a struggle to get the energy or […]
I’ve been revisiting a few old posts recently. In part because I seem to have little energy or concentration to write anything new, in part because I am proud of some of these older pieces and hope that by looking at them again they will find a wider audience, and, perhaps most of all, in […]
This is an old post, revisited in the time of Corona because I think so many of its lessons are now even more valid. In part this is because I am once again facing grief – my beloved aunt (there she is below, with my lovely cousins and me looking like a mardy brat behind […]
Like many people, I’m trying to find things to be positive about right now, even in these anxious days. So it was nice to be reminded that it’s my book birthday this week – that it’s a whole 8 years since the first Dark Dates book ventured into the world. At the time, I already […]
Dark Dates 