Competition is the purest form of Flattery

One of the biggest misconceptions about being a writer I had before I was a writer, or at least a published one, is that other writers were my competition. I imagined it would like a Jilly Cooper novel with more Read more

11th Night

I was going to talk to you guys about my newsletter this month (it’s new! It’s exciting! It’s at [email protected]), BUT I have the cold and it’s my birthday tomorrow. So I’m going to leave talk about marketing, open stats, Read more

Blog Tour incl Guestpost & Giveaway: Take the Edge Off by TA Moore

First of all, thank you so much for having me! I’m thrilled to be here with my new contemporary romance Take the Edge Off. One of the main characters in Take the Edge Off is a professional driver, and ex-semi-professional Read more

No Bad Ideas!

There’s no such thing as a bad idea!   One of my old bosses used to say that all the time in strategy meetings. Even then it was self-evidently an incorrect statement. Some ideas (even when you exclude any ideas Read more

Nobody is going to lose an eye

“Did you ask?” My grandad never asked for directions in his life. He usually got where he was going from, but it was from sheer cussedness and determination. Other members of my family are the same. Not just about directions, Read more

Pencil it in…

Once a year I used to buy a year planner. They started with Lisa Frank unicorns on ‘em when I was at school, so intrinsically gaudy that you could just sense that you had to write on them in pink Read more