As many of you know, I commit to a blog schedule at the end of each year for the coming year. My blog has in the past morphed into a writer's blog as opposed to a reader's blog and so I want 2020 to be different by still continuing to support my writing community as...
The origins of ‘Boxing Day’ are steeped in history and in my naivety, I assumed everyone had or knew of Boxing Day. Growing up in England my understanding was that it was an old tradition to open gifts the day after as Christmas Day was spent in church and then...
What inspired your latest novel? The idea for The Inquirer came to me in line at the grocery store where the tabloids and gossip magazines are on display. I wondered what the featured celebrities thought of the headlines. What would my neighbors and I think if our...
I am an advocate for always reviewing every book I read, not only does it give other readers an insight into the narrative but also acknowledges the author's hard work. A review is the life blood of any author - so please write a review, even a single sentence is...
Congratulations are in order to Jenna Greene for winning the Moonbeam Children’s Book Award. I asked Jenna some questions about her experience. Which book won the award? Reborn – a YA dystopian novel. (The first in a new series). Can you tell us a little about the...
This year I celebrate a decade of writing. It was not something my creative brain discovered until I came to Canada. Throughout my younger life art was my main creative outlet, whether it was painting, collage, pottery, sculpture, textiles, knitting, sewing, and many...
What inspired your latest novel? I had this idea—if the legends are real, why do they change so often? I started to imagine worlds where various legends were true. Werewolves, vampires, fairies. And what that world would look like, how it would have to be made up, in...
I completed NaNoWriMo on 15th November 2019, which is the fastest I have ever managed to write the 50,000 words required. This left me with several options, one of which was to continue with this story, Seasons of an Affair and increase the word count to 70,000 plus...
What inspired your latest book? Walking the Camino to Santiago de Compostela, twice, once in the autumn, again a few years later in the spring, and I wanted to share the beauty. 2. How did you come up with the title? A Photographer Walks the Camino to...