Welcome to my blog – a quiet little corner where I write about things that are close to my heart.
On hanging up my ‘Business Hat’
Twenty years ago next January, I started my editorial business. I sent a lot of letters/emails, set up my first website, and built a wide client base, from publishers and authors to charities, businesses and…
The book I keep with me
What’s your oldest book? The one that’s so well thumbed, it’s on the brink of falling part (which is a devastating thought)? My very oldest book is Paddington Goes to the Sales by Michael Bond,…
On writing while pregnant: nine months, five novels
Twenty-thirteen. Spring. It was gloomy and dark, I remember, the day I went into my office and wrote the opening pages of my first novel, Death Wish. And I was under a heavy cloud of…
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A little tour of Oxford, ‘city of dreaming spires’
My son has been determined to go to university since he was a little boy and I first began taking him for walks at University Park, Nottingham. In his early teens, he became interested in…
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