Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer
I am finally getting around to “officially” sharing my good news – at the British Fantasy Society awards last Saturday […]
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I am not a machine. (Some thoughts on AI and creativity.)
Last Saturday, over our usual morning coffee, my husband told me about an entrepreneur he’d been listening to on YouTube
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Reflecting on 2021 and some goals for 2022
This time last year we’d just gone into lockdown again and I was busy home schooling. Just the other day
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A Year of “Me Time”
Since this is the one year anniversary of when I announced that I’d be closing down my small press, Mother’s
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Reflecting on 2018 and a Giveaway!
Reflection is always valuable, but the end of the year provides the perfect excuse to pause and reflect on one’s
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The Rise and Rise of Renaissance Woman
A year or two ago I went to an event at the excellent Five Leaves Bookshop and got chatting to
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Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
Like ice-cream, every summer holiday has its own particular “flavour”. Now that both my children have returned to school and
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An Update on an Old Intention (aka How Ideas Mutate and Grow)
In October 2016 I did something unusual: I posted an ‘Intention’ (note the capital I) on my blog.
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Imagination, Inspiration, and Ursula Le Guin
Since my husband is a scientist and I’m an ex-scientist, we both love science fiction (reading and writing it).
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Reflections on a Decade of Mothering
As we near the end of the year I can’t help but look back. 2017 was a big ‘mothering year’
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The Appeal of Halloween to an HSP Who Doesn’t Like Horror
I’ve never liked horror – films or books – and the few famous films in that genre that I did
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Gifts of Nature; Summer Reminiscing
Today is a bright day, a glorious day, and I am glad of the autumn sunshine since, lately, the world
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