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Bit late due to lengthy ‘in-house’ edit checks on ‘Richer not Poorer-Death was the Start’ which has now gone back to the publishers-Grove House-for the final pre-print run off – nearly there! An excellent piece of work running to approx. 220,000 words. May have to...

It is appropriate to remind us of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 - “summers lease”… Which signifies the fleeting nature of summer, implying that summer's beauty and warmth are temporary, like a lease that has a limited duration. The line "And summer's lease hath all too...

As we’re heading for the middle of March I’ve posted the above banner as I wasn’t sure which Spring we are in? Leave you to decide and oh… a belated Happy New year! Three months have passed my last news letter as did advent quicker than Christ’s birth! Family...

‘No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon. No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day…sic…No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease; No comfortable feel in any member-No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits no flowers, no leaves, no birds!  No-vember!...

 ‘Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished’- Lao Tsai-Old Chinese philosopher. Slow but steady start as I plod along with the first draft of new Children’s book-8-12 yrs range -‘The Magical Pixie-Warriors and Alice’-  a minor spin-off from Cloverdaisy 2...

Hello everyone. Apologies for lateness. Hard to believe we’ve trickled into October and left behind what we used to call an Indian summer! Tempus fugit once again or ‘time and tide’ if you don’t know Latin! After a tricky and sad bereavement year so far, I was glad to...

Quiet with the markets since summer but done loads of submissions since last newsletter to both Publishing agents and publisher’s direct-tough going but hopeful as ever.

Sorry so late folks but as ever with the Seasons it’s hard to believe we’re already half way through July after my last update end of 2021!

After a torrid, tumultuous 21 months of Covid and continuing… I managed to ‘hit the road’ again with my Writers’ book stall kicking off Advent on Friday 3rd December at Sandbach’s Xmas Fair.

Normally I would have done my quarterly bulletin much sooner than this but… what could I comment on that’s not already been said or reported?