
Thoughts on A Decade of Blogging
Happy 10th birthday to my blog

Over the last few months, I've written several short novels/novellas: Scottish historical romances, Victorian orphan dramas, Amish love stories (yes, really)... you name it. If you're into any of those genres, ...

At the height of its success, my blog attracted over 70,000 readers per month: not enough to make me Internet famous, but just enough to make sure I’d never get ...

When it comes to fiction, my favourite genre by far is one that would probably be best described as "modern gothic novels"... but which I think of simply as "books ...

When I was a child, I was obsessed with The Famous Five books, by Enid Blyton. To this day, I cannot drink ginger beer or explore a network of secret underground ...

When I was a little girl, I had two major obsessions in life: 01. Books (Mainly adventure stories of the Famous Five/ Secret Seven / "Lets all have a ripping adventure, ideally involving ...

The Grandmother I inherited my green brooch and my red hair from also liked to write. She didn't have anything published, but she'd write little stories and poems (often about the ...
This week, I decided to start writing a book. Yes, again. If you’ve been reading this blog for many, many years, you may recall that I’ve been failing to write…

How to become a blogger: my story... Just in case you haven't been obsessively combing through my archives (and, I mean, seriously, WHY NOT?), you'll find the first part of this ...

I've always kept diaries. Well, I say "always": I obviously didn't come out of the womb shouting, "Quick, someone, get me a piece of paper, I need to write this ...

Remember that novel I was writing? Yeah, it would be good if I'd actually done that, wouldn't it? Why, I could be sitting here with a book deal and an ...

So, I’m writing a novel. God, I know, how tedious of me. Everyone is writing a novel these days. Even Terry has tried it, and, to be perfectly honest, I’d…