I don’t exactly brag about this trait, but I’m ridiculously careful how I spend money in my writing business. For better or worse, I have a tenacious, nimble, pig-headed (?!) personality which likes to publish and promote on a…
I have a freebie today that I hope you’ll like: ready-made graphics with book and reading themes, ideal to post on social media. Recently I’ve been musing that purposeful productivity is only attainable for your writing life if you…
May 2019 was a mudslide for me, as far as the goals I had set. So I’m here to confess, and to assert that sometimes it’s okay to miss your hopes by a mile. The first big problem was…
Today I’m delighted to celebrate the new release of Tracey Gemmell’s second novel, More Or Less Annie. Gemmell is a talented British expat author, and like me she lives in the USA (for now). We connected over shared themes…
It’s incredibly easy to end up over-committed. Without fierce vigilance about what you, and others, try to cram into your schedule, you will almost inevitably wake up one morning with the feeling you’ve got too much on your plate.…
It’s six years (gasp) since Saving Saffron Sweeting was published, with two further novels set in the same village released since then… and a fourth coming in November! Back then, I wanted clean, stylish covers, and preferred to avoid…
Email is someone else’s opinion of how to spend your time. This is a mantra I firmly believe! If you don’t take control of incoming email, and make mindful decisions on how to deal with it, then you’re at…
As predicted, I bit off more than I could chew in April. I’m not surprised I fell short of achieving several goals. But what does surprise me is how much I actually did get done. Is this proof perhaps,…