Author: Diane

Once again, at the time of writing I was still up against the clock with Book 4 of the great novella challenge. Tune in tomorrow to see how I did…Unless…

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Broken Angels by Gwyn Bennett. This…

I was up really early yesterday and the first hour of the day was spent scrolling through social media. When I think of the amount of work I still had…

As it was Wednesday, I had a midweek shopping errand to run. I’m keeping the midweek shopping errand. It gets the car out and moves my body on top of…

I experimented a bit with the cherry crumble topping on Monday night. The poet had already stoned and washed the cherries and I put them on to stew a little…

I did a lot of work at the weekend on the editing job and I finished yesterday’s blog post on Sunday so I could schedule it and carry on with…

It’s publication day today for my SHORT STORY The Weather Can Be Murder, Wordsworth Short #36. This is a story I wrote as an assignment for the fantasy thriller workshop….

Many thanks to the author for sending me an updated version of Murder at the Mill. This is a reboot of my original review as I’ve now been sent the…

I only managed my 3 chair exercises yesterday before going out to run my errand. At some point this week I’ve twisted my knee. I don’t know if I turned…

I’ve been very lax on the actual work front this week. I keep getting distracted by things that seem to be out of my control. For 2 days I’ve been…

I was up with the poet yesterday and I downloaded 2 free apps to help me with my move-my-body challenge. Okay, so there isn’t an official challenge, but it does…

Over my first dirty cuppa of the morning I once again read a daily newspaper (on Readly). This does seem to be becoming an easy habit, which is good. Perhaps…

I was up on time on Friday and I read a daily newspaper over my first dirty cup of tea of the day. I didn’t play any games and I…

It’s Valentine’s Day today and we have roses and cards in the house. We don’t have red (Lancaster) roses in our house, we have white, Yorkshire roses. (I’m married to…

I thought I’d have time to write up and post a blog by late morning, but I’m a bit late again. On Tuesday I closed work down early as we…

Image by Miriam Verheyden from Pixabay Monday was roadtrip time again. I didn’t post in detail about it before because of, you know, contents insurance. Or it being voided due…

I had a lot of problems last week trying to upload the latest 3 books I’m publishing to Google Play Books. It was always so easy before, but I think…

It’s publication day today for my VERY SHORT STORY Happy Valentine, Flash Fiction #12. This is a story I wrote a long time ago and it appeared in Flash Fiction…

Yesterday turned into a bit of a publishing day. I still have a few books to get out before I push the publishing side of things to one side, and…

How can it be Thursday already? So, I didn’t move into the living room in the end to do the client edit on Tuesday. I remembered (and saw) the reading…

We’ve started this 16:8 eating thing and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. For the most part, I’ll be having 2 light meals and 1 main meal in…

So, at the end of Wednesday last week, Fallen Angel decided it didn’t want to be written yet. I’d made a start on the first chapter and managed 401 words….

At the time of writing I was still up against the clock with Book 3 of the great novella challenge. It was looking good, though, and definitely achievable. Tune in…

I’m up against the clock today, and yesterday, so just the wrap-up today. January wrap-up! create graphic for Hello January ✔️ create graphic for January wrap-up ✔️ new word-count spreadsheet…