The sound of bird song awakens me and I lazily turn to my Greek Adonis husband, trailing my fingers across a Diet Coke break six-pack. We are going to spend ...
When was the last time you thought about your hormones? For some the word alone fills us with dread as symptoms from conditions like PCOS and endometriosis govern our lives. ...
My novel, ‘Maggie’s Kitchen’, is inspired by real events from the Second World War and the British Restaurants that the Ministry of Food established to help overcome the food shortages. ...
The eighteenth century was was a man’s world and any woman who wished to succeed as an artist had to overcome numerous obstacles. In a society in which women were required ...
By Jon Lawrence, author of The Jack Newton Radio Having lost my friend in the 9/11 attacks on New York, an unborn child and watched my mother die following years ...
I dedicate almost all of my books to my father, who passed away before I first published anything. One of the last things my father said to me before ...
As a brand-new author, I often get asked what suddenly drew me to writing. I’m in my thirties (all right, later thirties) and I suddenly had an urge to finally ...
To celebrate the release of her new book Gather The Daughters, author Jennie Melamed tells us a little bit about herself. I am crazy about dogs. Once I walked full ...
While in University I was a DJ at the campus radio station. Popular music always appealed to me even though I was raised on the classics. I played the piano ...
Years ago, I was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given just 9 months to live. So I know what it means to appreciate and celebrate life, because I do it ...
The challenge in coming up with the top ten villainesses in fiction is really an embarrassment of riches. Our literature teams with powerful female characters who know that all is ...
There is a rule about beer you may not know. According to the “German Purity Law” or Reinheitsgebot, beer is only made up of four ingredients: water, barley, hops, and ...
By James Withey Because it’s not like anything else. It’s not ‘like’ the blues, or ‘like’ an extended bad-hair day, or ‘like’ sadness, or ‘like’ feeling low. Sometimes you ...
I walk slowly down the cemetery path towards the grave. Alongside me is Richard, our local funeral director. Behind us the hearse bears the body of an elderly woman whom ...
The Paleo diet is a highly effective means of hitting any health or fat loss goal quite simply because it’s based upon highly nutritious foods. Paleo ingredients are often sourced ...
Some things are best left forgotten. Scarlet Pierce has it all—an impressive home, a successful business and an intimidatingly handsome husband who adores her. It’s the kind of life most ...
If I’m not in the middle of a new project, editing my current book, or in the process of publishing a finished book on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Amazon’s independent ...
I’m currently solo windsurfing around Europe. Well, at this particular moment, I am sitting on a pontoon at a place I don’t know the name of in Norway waiting for ...
Every summer during my formative years, I would read Tolkien. I would start with the Silmarillion, followed by The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I did this every ...
I've wanted to be a children's author since I was a kid myself. When I was in elementary school, I wrote a novel and tried, unsuccessfully, to get it published. ...
1) Born in the North East of England as the youngest of three girls, two sisters born before the second world war and following a long gap I was born ...
