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Get Not Your Heart Away free

I know how much those words stir the soul of every netizen. It’s true. For two days only, Not Your Heart Away is free to download on Kindle. Just go…

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So far so fiction

Just for my own vanity and to convince myself there’s actually something getting done (and of course to give myself an excuse for not writing today, because I was doing…

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A Voice Of Their Own

“The characters just had a life of their own. They wrote the book, not me. I don’t know where they came from. I had one idea in my head for…

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The Riddle of the Stains

Once up a time proper chaps and chapeseses spoke in RP, the BBC’s Received Pronunciation. Or we were supposed to, anyway. It was designed, created, invented even, when for the…

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Along With Anne of Green Gables

I never read Anne of Green Gables. I remember seeing it on TV but about the only salient details that stand out now, rooting through the dusty attic of memories…

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On Amazon

Another Nice Review I must admit I found the first few pages of Not Your Heart Away a little hard going, but I have learnt that this does not always…

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How Do You Write It?

I see this topic a lot on writing forums (fora? forii??) and I’ve been asked it a few times too. And I don’t know. I tried to write Not Your…

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Not Your Heart Away – The Sequel

Brilliant news today. Another old friend I’ve just got back in touch with thanks to the wonders of Facebook has put me in touch with someone who’s pointing me at…

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A Reunion

I’ve just got back from a university reunion, with people I haven’t seen since the 1980s. I ‘m coming to realise that whole real people have been born, grown-up, married,…

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A rather pleasant invitation

I like being invited to things. It makes me feel wanted. Today I was invited to do something extra nice, namely send the manuscript of Not Your Heart Away over…

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