After twenty odd years, I’m finally with a publisher that is one hundred per cent behind me. Bookouture aim to create brilliant books that sell. I’m not sure I would ...
It’s World Meditation Day on 21st May and Swami Saradananda is a renowned and international yoga and meditation teacher with over 40 years of experience. In her classes, she often ...
I was corporate editorial director at Time Warner and chief speechwriter for two New York governors. I’ve published four novels and a book of essays. My career has taught me ...
I WAS TEN years old the first time I realised I was strange. Around midnight, a woman dressed in white slipped through my bedroom window and cut off a lock ...
Towards the end of WW2 when I was born, more females were joining the workforce and replacing their men who had either been killed, were injured, or still serving in ...
I stumbled across Lady Mary Wortley Montagu when I saw her monument in Lichfield Cathedral. I had never heard of her and started reading her selected letters. Lady Mary suffered ...
Lockdown, for me, was rather inverted experience to that of many people. I normally work from home – a nice, quiet, empty home – but when lockdown hit, my space ...
Sometimes, when back to working in the office, we might experience stressful thinking such as: ‘I have to go to this meeting’ or, ‘I have to do this task’. It’s ...
The old adage says that authors we should write about what they know. In my debut novel, Half the World Away, there was so much about the process of writing ...
Shhh. A secret. When I first dreamed of being an author, the last thing I thought I’d write was romantic fiction. I worked on thrillers, children’s books, YA and even ...
Eating in tune with the seasons and weather helps bring inner balance. Take a look outside from the inside of your home each day and assess what the weather looks ...
The obvious answer is: well, we’re not exactly getting our thrills anywhere else. Not to reek of middle-class ennui, but I have literally never been so consistently bored in my ...
1) I had a bantam chicken that called Hag Dowsabel after the witch in my favourite children’s novels by Lorna Wood. My bantam loved cuddles, marmite sandwiches and cups of ...
In August of 2018, with a toddler and a six-week-old baby in tow, my partner and I moved from London to a decrepit house in Northumberland. In early January 2020 ...
In a world where it seems as if every other person is a Coach, whether that be a Relationship Coach, a Mindset Coach, a Career Coach - what exactly is ...
I’m thinking about resilience today and what that might mean for children going back to school on March 8th. I know from those I’ve talked to that whilst they so ...
I wrote ‘How to be A Boss at Ageing’ because I’d just reached my mid-forties and was feeling a range of emotions, many of them pretty crap. I struggled to ...
1. My characters can have really poignant moments with their dogs. Dogs are a real comfort and people open up and talk to dogs in a way that they don’t ...
1) I chose to do my Master’s degree in children’s literature because I was a high school teacher and thought that I would find my writing niche producing books for ...
Readers are always interested in how ideas for stories come to be and THE EVIDENCE started to develop when I had the idea of incorporating podcast extracts within a story. ...
Whether you have been bereaved by Covid-19, or from another cause during lockdown, the isolation and stress will not have helped. Even if you haven’t been bereaved, you will be ...
