A new idea. Meet Alex, she’s my sister.

I had hoped that after I had put my NaNo project aside, normal service would have been resumed with one of my half-finished novels. However, the voices in my head had other ideas. Instead of that, I had an idea … Continued

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Festive Fare. Crumble-topped Mince Pies

This is a recipe that has been requested, ever since I posted the finished article on Facebook. I’m just giving you the quantities, I assuming you know how to make the pastry. Ingredients For the pastry 8 oz Plain Flour, … Continued

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Maybe you were right. Festive Flash Fiction

Taken from my collection Flash Fiction 2, here’s a short story for the season. Maybe you were Right The crew had drawn straws and Martine had lost. I hadn’t bothered, I was happy to stay and let someone else go. … Continued

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Well, that’s NaNo over for another year!

NaNo was a success for me this year. In the end, I managed 51865 words of my next story. As always, there’s a mixture of feelings, relief and amazement that I actually managed to finish and sadness that I will … Continued

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The Next Big Thing

Here’s a story from my first collection of short work, Flash Fiction. It’s not really a Sci-fi tale, it’s set in space but it doesn’t need to be. Totally unconnected to any of my other work, here is my take … Continued

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NaNoWriMo 2020, it’s decision time.

As I said in a previous post, I have been trying to decide what project to use as my NaNo challenge this year. It’s my sixth year of NaNo, the first five projects are all on sale. Hopefully, whatever I … Continued

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Andorra Pett will return in a new adventure, very soon.

The latest instalment of Andorra Pett’s adventures will be published soon. It’s been out with my beta readers and I’m starting to get feedback. The worry with writing a series is that they can get boring or repetitive, acquiring a … Continued

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I was never a writer, this is my story.

This post first appeared on Sue Vincent’s website. I was trying to express how I ended up writing novels, a way of occupying my time that nobody (including me) would have ever believed that I could do. I was never … Continued

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