That seems way too young to be reading kissing books—but preteens are hormone central, and anyway, it wasn’t the kissing that drew me. Before romance, I read YA fantasy, and ...
- Christmas isn’t a day for me, it’s a season – and it starts the first weekend of December, with Christmas Tree Saturday. As a family, we head out to ...
A reclusive widow accused of witchcraft. A transcendentalist preacher haunted by his past. A killer who draws their inspiration from the morbid works of Edgar Allan Poe. When I sat ...
Let’s talk research. It sounds dull, doesn’t it? Dull, drab and dusty. Trawling through a never-ending pile of books and documents, trekking up to London to scour the hallowed shelves ...
I believe that a happy and successful life is not solely dependent on one’s academic ability. Character and moral development are just as fundamental, if not more, to an individual’s ...
I was doing my utmost to see a ghost. I'd booked a weekend at an ancient inn over Hallowe'een in a remote, reputedly haunted hamlet in deepest Suffolk. A suitably ...
For me, Christmas kicks off in earnest when we head to Cannock Chase to collect a real tree from the Forestry Commission. There’s nothing wrong with an artificial one, of ...
I make a rich all-butter dark fruit cake well in advance, soaking the fruit and peel for at least three days in dark rum. I usually bake at least one ...
I’m an eavesdropper. I love stories, and I’m always covertly on the lookout for inspiration! Sad, beautiful, charged moments that seem too real to be true, that random instance that ...
Beverley Bowry has two main passions, her family and composing compelling stories. Charlie Palmer Says is her debut novel. Here she shares her top tips for writing for children. As ...
When I was living in London many years ago, some friends and I drove out late one October night to shoot a dance film at Glastonbury Tor. We were making ...
Putting up the Christmas tree. Putting up the Christmas tree is the start of Christmas for me. I have fond memories of decorating the Christmas tree with my brothers when ...
By Brenda Burling, author of Might Make You Smile It is said laughter is the best medicine but surely not with something like cancer? In fact, on the contrary, as ...
As always, I would like to send in advance, thank you for the blog invite. A big thanks to the host. I feel blessed. So my debut novel, Whatever It ...
By Deanna Brann, author of Reluctantly Related Revisited: Breaking Free of the Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Conflict Wedding season is here again and those wedding preparation seem to take over the lives of ...
‘Just want to let off steam here seems to be the place My in-laws2b are driving me crazy at their lack of interest in our wedding!
We saw the florist ...
I’ve been a writer in various genres under different names. Davonte’s Inferno: Ten Years in the New York Public School Gulag (https://amzn.to/2MxsMaO) was my no-holds-barred, scathing critique of fear and ...
Picture this: I’m eighteen years old, straight out of school and I’m waiting for my first university tutorial to start. I had settled well into university. Nice room in student ...
It is absolutely frightening to know that so many of my favourite heinous villains described in literature, have their equally shocking counterparts liberally scattered across the annals of our world’s ...
During the 80s and 90s, with camera in hand, I accompanied hill farmers throughout the year in all weathers, recording whatever task they were undertaking. My aim was to peel ...
To celebrate the release of her new book Paris: A Curious Traveler’s Guide, we asked author Eleanor Aldridge to let us in on 7 things she'd like her readers to ...
Author of the Hannah the Spanner series of children’s books I was born in Birmingham and moved down to Sussex when I was about three. I went to school at ...
