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This is the blog I was going to write last week. I was going to write it last week, because for most of last week the rest of my family...

Since the weather, after a brief burst of glorious rain, has decided to be ridiculous again, I offer here some additional information on...

I have not been a conscientious blog-writer of late. This is probably because I hate writing blogs when I don’t have anything to write...

I may have mentioned once or twice that I have terrible research habits. I’ll be sitting there, innocently writing, or at least trying to...

I love my friends I really do. My friends are kind, creative, fun to be around, infinitely surprising, and determinedly helpful. For...

I am the worst person to write any kind of Valentine’s Day post. Partly because I’ve been married for over twenty years and was no...

I have terrible luck at buying presents. Either the thing that I know someone will like, which has been available in one particular place...

I am currently mired in re-writes. We tend to talk a lot about writing, but not so much about re-writing.
Re-writing is what happens...

This evening, just before I was due to leave the house for a dance class, a story dropped into my head. So I sat down to write it out,...

If you read my frankly bananas post about audiobooks and thought: "Does she have an ulterior motive here?" then you were absolutely...

For some reason there’s a lot of controversy around audiobooks. Some people love them, some people don’t, and somehow this all adds up to...

Years ago I read a blog by Juno Dawson. I think it was a blog, anyway, but honestly this was ages ago, and I had no idea who Juno Dawson...

If you've been reading my blog for a while (why? why would you subject yourself to that?) you are probably aware that I am pretty much...

If you're on social media or enjoy reading book blogs, you might run into a familiar cover over the next few weeks. The Vicar Man is on...

Sorry, that sounded faintly ominous didn't it? Like the kind of post that starts "It is with heavy heart that I must tell you..." and...

I was going to write a blog post today. I swear I was: I had it all planned out. In fact I had three planned out: one about being a...

I am not very good at promoting myself. I never know what to put in and advert or a blurb, I am fundamentally incapable of showing off,...

There's less than a day left on my Goodreads giveaway, so if you live in the United States or Canada, and you don't already own your very...

I'm giving away a hundred copies of The Vicar Man kindle edition, through Goodreads. If you haven't yet read my truly excellent* book,...

No, I'm sorry, I know the next line ought to be something on the lines of "Hot and steamy" or "Dark but sweet" or some other hilarious...