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When Will I Ever Learn?
I ran out of rope this week. If dogged determination, relentless cheeriness, and blind optimism were plaited into a rope, I abruptly ran out of all three.  I'm no mountaineer,... Read more...
Halloween, Nostalgia, and Plastic Pumpkins
Halloween, Nostalgia, and Plastic Pumpkins
As you'd expect from a writer of witchy fiction, I love Halloween. If it could stretch all the way to springtime, I’d gladly trade Christmas for a few more months... Read more...
Mabon Reflections: The Dance of Day and Night
Mabon Reflections: The Dance of Day and Night
The wheel turns. This Sunday is Mabon, the autumn equinox. Day and night will be equal—like the black swan and the white, frozen on stage with toes pointed, wings outstretched,... Read more...
My Writing Week
My Writing Week
Well, that title’s a fib for a start. We’ve been away this week, so I’ve not written a thing which makes me feel all sorts of things – chiefly, a... Read more...
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The Season of the Witch
Autumn has arrived. While the sun is still warm, the garden thirsty for rain, there is the promise of change on the wind. The leaves on the trees are waiting.... Read more...
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Five misbeliefs that held back my author career
It took me more than a decade to write my first novel. Why so long? Here I unpack the five misbeliefs that held me back. Do you recognise any?  Read more...
Why There Always Needs To Be A Next Book
Why There Always Needs To Be A Next Book
How the need to finish my first novel helped me through the darkest of times.    Read more...
Today, I picked blueberries in the rain
Today, I picked blueberries in the rain
Today is my half birthday. Exactly six months ago, I turned fifty, an age that seems impossibly old and yet, at the same time, is a number that I'm delighted... Read more...
All the Fun of the Fair
All the Fun of the Fair
This time last week I was prepping for my first ever book fair. The idea struck me last October while I was up a ladder, paintbrush in hand. A quick social... Read more...
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The Breath of Writing
Writing is like breathing, I've decided. The inbreath is the writing itself—a golden light that races through my veins, recharging my batteries like a solar cell in the sun. Read more...
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Lessons in Patience
A week today, my plucky little third book, 'The Magic Keepers', will arrive in the world. I say plucky because this one was so determined to be written, it elbowed... Read more...
Impatiently Waiting: A Writer's Tale
Impatiently Waiting: A Writer's Tale
Publishing a book is ten percent writing and editing and 90 percent waiting and faffing around with websites of various descriptions. If the tech fairy wasn't one of the magical... Read more...