Originally posted on ☆ Flora's Week Show ☆:
Hello blogging beans & Mum! Today, is a very special day because it’s my Mum’s birthday! 🎂 Yay! 🎉 To celebrate this special day, I’ve put together a poem and a list of things that I’m thankful that you do. By the way my Mum has a blog…
Originally posted on A Little Book Problem:
Today I am delighted to be interviewing the winner of the?Sapere Books Popular Romantic Fiction Award in the Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards 2021 with her novel Sing Me A Secret. Please welcome to the blog, author… Julie Houston. Julie, congratulations on your win and thank you very much…
When I’m writing a novel, I always like to have an image in my mind of what the two lead characters look like. Often, this can be a composite of two or three people – for example, in my debut novel, The Second Chance Tea Shop, Matthew Carter, the leading man, was a kind of […]
Originally posted on Eatwell Reads-Well:
I immediately empathised with Kate; she came across as totally lovely and I couldn’t understand why her Husband had ever left her for another woman. She also seemed the perfect Mum; how I felt for her, when she discovered her Husband was taking their boys to Florida with his new…
A Romantic Fiction Writer’s Thoughts on the England Team of Euro 2020.
Originally posted on Book Escapes with BabsW67:
When Kate Harris accepts the job of redecorating her brother Aidan’s house in the picturesque town of Willowbury, she knows it’s just a stop gap before she has to decide what to do with the rest of her life. While her three sons spend the summer holiday with…
So, today’s ‘what I love’ is actually about something I’ve just started…again. There’s something about the very beginning of a new novel; when the details aren’t there, when you’re feeling your way, and things are just vague shapes in your mind. For me, it starts with the end. I generally, although not always, know how […]
I’m going to try to follow my daughter’s example with this blog, and post more regularly for the next few weeks. As a result, I thought I’d do some shortish posts where I write about things I love. Welcome to the first in the series! So…the Shipping Forecast. Put simply, it’s a list of the […]
Like most authors, I often get asked if I base my characters or events on real life things, and, like most authors, I always say no! However, now that my latest novel, ‘Snowflakes Over Bay Tree Terrace’, has been published, I thought it would be nice to talk about the elements of reality in my […]
Originally posted on ☆ Flora's Week Show ☆:
I’ve been thinking of doing a poem for a long time and here it is. Winter Frost curls up on my window, Like my cat inside. I run my hands through the condensation. I Whisper ‘it’s winter The winter like sun shone through the Grey, Puffed up clouds…
