Just the other day I officially signed off The Forgotten and the Fantastical 2 with the printers. I am relieved. Very relieved. Ridiculously, I forgot how much energy, time and focus it takes to put a book like this together. With 17 stories by 17 writers, internal illustrations by Emma Howitt to incorporate and a […]
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As it seems to have been an age since I last blogged (though I’m still just about managing the once-a-month blog post!) I thought I’d go with a list to help me put into words all the big things that have been happening around here. HOLIDAYS Our one week away to Wales at the
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Love this poem entitled ‘Motherhood’ by Jessica Starr of every day magic at the end of this video of snippets from the anthology Musings on Mothering. Of course I’m biased (I edited the anthology) but still… that poem is very, very special. Enjoy! 🙂 Thanks again to Amanda at WriteAlm for the writing prompts – they make
My family and I have been on our holidays, and as usual, I’ve been busy at home with work, household chores, and of course lots of play, which hasn’t left a lot of time for blog writing (although I have been busying writing poems and a short story in the dead of the night….!). Holidays
Well… a wild woman is not a screaming, raving banshee. She is not an out-of-control woman desperately clawing at everything and everyone in a mad rage. She is rather like the wild itself; the untamed wild forests, prairies and deserts where everything is in balance – in accord. And like the animals that live in
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