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September 15, 2025
January 9, 2025Author of the Month, December 2024 - Radio Interview It felt like a celebration to end 2014 as Author of the Month for the broadcast "Community Connections" on my most local radio station, Sherborne's Abbey 104. Every author wants to find the right readers, people with whom our work resonates in one way or another. And I was doubly lucky…
September 21, 2024Where better to launch the paperback of Amateurs than the café bar of a first-class music venue?After all, the book's as much about socialising as it is about singing. We wanted a party and definitely got one - I'm only sad I can't post photos of the fun bits, all because I forgot to seek permission from attendees to share…
March 21, 2024Here’s a new thing. I was recently contacted by Ben Fox at Shepherd.com and invited to write a set of 5 short book reviews on a theme of my choosing. In exchange, the site would feature one of my books. I hadn’t heard of this site - it’s relatively new - but the name says it all. The idea is…
March 7, 2023It was meeting with readers of Joe Faber and the Optimists that first got me thinking seriously about producing an audio book. Many stroke survivors find physical books difficult to handle; my husband's one of them, and only reads on a tablet now. For others, though, brain injury has affected the ability to read at all, and audio is their…
July 3, 2021Music to my ears from David Mitchell at this year's Sidmouth Literary Festival Knowing neurosis from the inside ought to be really useful for a novelist, if only it didn’t make it so very hard to get yourself into the starting gate. If you don’t dare call yourself a writer, you can’t say you suffer from ‘writers’ block,’ can you? …
January 28, 2021This article first appeared in My Weekly online, 26 January 2021. “So,” asked my interviewer, “what are you working on now?” She smiled approvingly when I said I was writing a novel; a funny book about a serious subject. The smile curdled when I told her it was about stroke rehab. My defence is that when my husband had a…- July 22, 2020I’ve spent most of lockdown locked down with IT. Which has little to do with writing, but a lot to do with books.The priority was getting Joe Faber and the Optimists out, first as an eBook, and soon in paperback. The last few days were the worst, spent troubleshooting and tracking down missing but essential information that the tech giants…
