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Book Review: The Lighthouse Sisters

This feature is in association with NetGalley. The Lighthouse Sisters by Gill Thompson Many thanks to NetGalley and to Headline Review for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of…

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Diary of a Tiger: Fri 11 Nov 2022

Chapter 53: Friday 11 November Saturday Saturday should have been Day 4 of NaNoWriMo, but it turned into a day of household chores. The poet popped out at midday to…

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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 5

Day 5: 8 November 2022 For this year’s NaNoWriMo, I’ll be writing for 22 days in November. This gives me a daily target of 2,273 words, which will be about…

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NaNoWriMo Interlude – Publishing Challenge! (Gallery)

I interrupt my NaNoWriMo updates to bring you the post I’ve been promising for weeks. But first… Publication Day! It’s Publication Day today for Poppy Day, a VERY SHORT flash…

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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 4

Day 4: 6 November 2022 For this year’s NaNoWriMo, I’ll be writing for 22 days in November. This gives me a daily target of 2,273 words, which will be about…

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Diary of a Tiger: Sat 5 Nov 2022

Chapter 52: Saturday 5 November For the duration of NaNoWriMo, Diary of a Tiger will go back to weekly posts, appearing on a Saturday with a round-up of the week. I’m…

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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 3

Day 3: 3 November 2022 For this year’s NaNoWriMo, I’ll be writing for 22 days in November. This gives me a daily target of 2,273 words, which will be about…

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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 2

Day 2: 2 November 2022 For this year’s NaNoWriMo, I’ll be writing for 22 days in November. This gives me a daily target of 2,273 words, which will be about…

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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 1

Day 1: 1 November 2022 For this year’s NaNoWriMo, I’ll be writing for 22 days in November. This gives me a daily target of 2,273 words, which will be about…

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Diary of a Tiger: Tue 1 Nov 2022

Chapter 51: Tuesday 1 November November already… This year has flown by. Friday On Friday morning we had the 3rd of our 4 appointments for last week. The poet’s car…

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Publication Day! Last one!

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the final book in my publishing challenge! Wahey! I made it. 😁 And I’m going out on a BANG! 🎊 🎉 I wrote…

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Diary of a Tiger: Fri 28 Oct 2022

Chapter 50: Friday 28 October I was whizzed through the 6:40pm appointment on Wednesday at record speed and by 8pm we’d eaten and were home again. We had Burger King…

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Diary of a Tiger: Thu 27 Oct 2022

Chapter 49: Thursday 27 October Wednesday was a bit discombobulated due to the regular diary being disrupted slightly. It was the second of this week’s four appointments where I had…

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Diary of a Tiger: Wed 26 Oct 2022

Chapter 48: Wednesday 26 October For the second day on the trot, I made it to my desk by 10am, and it didn’t even involve having to get up and…

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Diary of a Tiger: Tue 25 Oct 2022

Chapter 47: Tuesday 25 October I had a difficult night on Thursday night due to both the dog and the cat waking me up not once but twice. Each. They…

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Publication Day! 1… (And Book 53!)

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. This one is Book 53! (Of 54.) And that means there’s only one more to go…

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Diary of a Tiger: Fri 21 Oct 2022

Chapter 46: Friday 21 October The rain returned yesterday, with a vengeance, and promptly started to pour in through the conservatory. I reported this at the end of last month,…

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Diary of a Tiger: Thu 20 Oct 2022

Chapter 45: Thursday 20 October I’m doing a few diaries on the trot at the moment because I’m still not back into the swing of my regular weekly chores. I…

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Diary of a Tiger: Wed 19 Oct 2022

Chapter 44: Wednesday 19 October I had 2 lots of good news on Tuesday. First of all, I saw I’d sold some more books. This is amazing and it really…

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Diary of a Tiger: Tue 18 Oct 2022

Chapter 43: Tuesday 18 October After working until 6:15am on Friday morning, I was pretty much a waste of food for the rest of the day. I went straight to…

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Publication Day! 2… (And Book 52!)

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. This one is Book 52! (Of 54.) And that means that I met my 52 books…

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Diary of a Tiger: Fri 14 Oct 2022

Chapter 42: Friday 14 October One of the things I wanted to get ahead on again was drafting these diary blogs during the day as I work and then auto-posting…

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Diary of a Tiger: Thu 13 Oct 2022

Chapter 41: Thursday 13 October The blank planner and diary spreadsheets I adapted and printed off yesterday seem to be working already. I’m more focused and ticking things off again….

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Diary of a Tiger: Wed 12 Oct 2022

Chapter 40: Wednesday 12 October Despite how I felt by the end of yesterday, I did actually have quite a good day during which I got through quite a lot….