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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 4 Feb

Chapter 6: Week commencing Friday 4 February Friday February already, and not even the 1st of February but the 4th. Already this year is flying by. I had a lot…

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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 28 Jan

Chapter 5: Week commencing Friday 28 January Friday Friday last week was another ghostwriting day. I did the revisions for GW2 and I had a look at GW1. I didn’t…

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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 5

See Chapter 4 here Chapter 5 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Martha’s Favourite Doll is a short story that one fiction editor asked me to…

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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 21 Jan

Chapter 4: Week commencing Friday 21 January Friday On Friday I had wall to wall ghostwriting booked in. I was busy doing other stuff as well, though, such as making…

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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 4

See Chapter 3 here Chapter 4 I missed blogging about the publishing challenge last week because last Monday was a very busy day. I worked solidly on client work and…

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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 14 Jan

Chapter 3: Week commencing Friday 14 January Friday After a bit of hit and miss, I was back on track again by Friday. I did my typing practice first, and…

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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 7 Jan

Chapter 2: Week commencing Friday 7 January Friday Yes, we start this week’s diary on Friday. This is because I post it on a Friday and in a lot of…

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Publishing Challenge!

See Chapter 2 here Chapter 3 Today is publication day for Flash Fiction: five very short stories. This is a collection of short stories that all run to under 1,200 words…

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Diary of a Tiger

Welcome to the new instalment in the Diary of… series. The Diary of… series is a set of three books, each one set against a year in the life of…

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Writers’ ideas: where to find them

Wednesdays will be regular weekly writing prompts again soon, but as I haven’t had chance yet to search any dates, here’s a connected post I made earlier… Ideas are all…

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Publishing Challenge!

Welcome to 2022! And welcome to my challenge for the coming year. The publishing challenge blog post is supposed to be on a Monday, to coincide with my own publishing…

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Happy New Year!

I didn’t bother sharing a publication day post for Careful What You Wish For because I think one a week is getting a bit old. However, it was published on 20…

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The bit in the middle

It’s that bit in the middle, in between Christmas and New Year. I hope you had a great Christmas. We’re still eating leftovers and even food that wasn’t even opened….

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Merry Christmas!

I’ve been a bit busy these past few days, but wanted to nip on to say thank you for being here, and have a wonderful Christmas!

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Book Review: Dreaming of Christmas

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Dreaming of Christmas by T.A.Williams Many thanks to both NetGalley and to Canelo for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Dreaming…

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How I became a writer

My writing journey started in 1985. It started with a letter A chance find in my late great-aunt’s belongings started a process that has continued to this very day. It…

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Publication Day

It’s publication day today for the SHORT STORY Happy Christmas, Santa. This is another of the new and rebranded Wordsworth Shorts from the archives. The story is available in multi-ebook format from…

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Our postie is such a tease

Next month, Friday’s blog posts will be Diary of a Tiger: a year in the life of a fearless writer. This month, they’re still the same-old same-old. But there are only…

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Blummin technology!

The new blog regime doesn’t officially start until the new year. That doesn’t stop me from practising, though and, so far, I’ve done a spreadsheet planner reminding me to write…

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I’m going to be busy

I’ve had a busy couple of weeks, mostly doing one of two things: Planning Ghostwriting I break up for Christmas on 16 December. Before then I had 40,000 words to…

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New year, new blog series (plural)

I’m already planning ahead to the new year, mostly because I have to do some planning in order to keep on top of everything. And now is the time I’m…

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Publication Day + Publishing Challenge!

It’s publication day today for the SHORT STORY Dancing on Ice. This is another of the new and rebranded Wordsworth Shorts from the archives. The story is available in multi-ebook format from…

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Challenge: Publish a book a week for a year

I seem to have inadvertently fallen into a bit of a challenge to myself to publish a book a week for a year. I could say I’ll start in January…

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Book Review: A Christmas Gift

This feature is in association with NetGalley. A Christmas Gift by Sue Moorcroft Many thanks to both NetGalley and to Avon Books UK for letting me see an advance reader’s…