A walk down Ghost Mushroom Lane
Maybe it’s because I was a city kid, or most likely, it’s because I’m a fantasy writer – but the word ‘forest’ is usually en...
Category: Every day life
It takes a village: The Complementary Kitchen Publisher Logo Design
I’ve chatted about the Wolf Mother cover design and editing and today, in the last post in this little ‘It takes a village’ mini-series, IR...
It takes a village: Editing the Wolf Mother book
As I said previously, writing (and publishing) a book, is a bit like raising kids; it takes a village. Last post, I chatted about the cover design, and in this ...
It takes a village: The Wolf Mother Cover Design
Just like raising children, publishing a book takes a village. I wrote the Wolf Mother book, but a couple of other incredibly talented women (my pack of Lone Wo...
My cat swallowed a sewing needle (and other odd things that happened while I was writing a book)
Some writers write fast, while others might take longer. My novel, Wolf Mother (The Moonstruck Mother Series, Book 1) took me 23 months to write. While it’...
The tale of two tigers
There have been quite a few weird coincidences while I was writing Wolf Mother (The Moonstruck Mother Series, Book 1). The freakiest of them all was learning (a...
From the bookshelf: January 2018 books I have read
Because I only pressed “publish” on the 18th Jan for the final book in my non-fiction cookbook series, I started out the year a little slow…. ...
A standing ovation for my new writing set-up.
There was a lot of talk a few years ago about standing desks and how they were so much better for you, and that “sitting was the new smoking.” But, ...
Is it what the market wants? Or is it what they accept because it’s all that is available to buy and read?
I have mentioned before that I’m not really a fan of the “write to market” concept – in the context of pumping out numerous “same ...
What I read in 2017
Here is a summary of all the books I read in 2017. Click on the image or the link below to go to my thoughts/ review of the books. January February March April ...