So my book, my new novel, my fourth book, Dear Magpies, has been out for a month. It was published as a paperback by SilverWood Books on 18th November - and, it seems, people are reading it. Amazing! I've been running [...]
Two weeks tomorrow, on Thursday 21st November at 6.30pm for 7pm, I am having a Book Launch for my new book Dear Magpies, at Winstones Books in Cheap Street, Sherborne, DT9 3PX. I will be giving a talk about my [...]
The wind is blowing today and swirling the leaves around, autumnal messages from the trees to the earth below, red songs, yellow secrets, laments in purple and whispers in brown. Millions of millions of leaves, each one entirely unique, soon [...]
All bookshops are marvellous places but a good independent bookshop is really worth supporting. I'm lucky enough to have a book signing next weekend on Saturday 19th September at Winstone's Book Shop in Cheap Street, Sherborne in Dorset. Winstone’s is [...]
My third book has been published this summer by Onwards and Upwards – a novel called The Lost Journey Homeward. It is a contemporary take on the parable of the Prodigal Son, though in my book the prodigal is a [...]
Authors must help their publishers to market their own books these days. We tend to target local booksellers to hold book launches, talks and signings in our own areas, where we know people and can spread the word or [...]
My next Event coming up is on Sunday 2nd August at 4pm - Tea and Talk at Beatons Tearooms in Blandford Forum, Dorset. Here is further information: Blandford Tea & Talk Flyer. FLASH FICTION: If you want to read [...]
I love painting watercolours as well as writing fiction, and I've done both for some years. I belong to the Milton Abbas Art Group and every summer we hold a group exhibition when, along with the other members, I exhibit [...]
The Dorset Midsummer Music and Food Festival on Saturday 20th June at Warren Farm on Bulbarrow Hill was so enjoyable! During the day, at the bookstall, I was selling and signing copies of my new book THE LOST JOURNEY HOMEWARD [...]
On Wednesday, 3rd December, I will be in Dorchester in Dorset at Waterstones ‘Christmas Cracker’ evening shopping event 6 – 9pm, with other local authors at a signing and book promotion. Next week I’ll be at a book promotional event [...]