Tuesday 25 February 2025: Falling behind
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…
Monday 24 February 2025: Publication day!
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….
Book Review: Murder at the Mill by T.A. Belshaw
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…
Friday 21 February 2025: Ebooks all backed up
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…
Thursday 20 February 2025: Does Scruffy have a mate?
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…
Wednesday 19 February 2025: A full day’s work?
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…
Tuesday 18 February 2025: Another proprietorial move
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…
Monday 17 February 2025: ‘Albatross! Albatross! Alabatross…’
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…
Friday 14 February 2025: Valentine’s Day!
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…
Thursday 13 February 2025: Home!
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…
Wednesday 12 February 2025: Roadtrip
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…
Tuesday 11 February 2025: Fog
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…
Monday 10 February 2025: Publication day!
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…
Friday 7 February 2025: A publishing day
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…
Thursday 6 February 2025: Short n sweet
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…
Wednesday 5 February 2025: Nice and steady
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…
Tuesday 4 February 2025: A bit of a whirl
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….
Monday 3 February 2025: Hello February!
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…
Friday 31 January 2025: January wrap-up!
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…
Thursday 30 January 2025: Deadline days
It was our first deadline day of the year yesterday for 12 Stories in 12 Months on Deadlines for Writers. I’d finished a very rough draft of the 1,200-word story…
Wednesday 29 January 2025: Rhythm
I didn’t write up Tuesday’s blog post until Tuesday morning, thanks to my procrastination on Monday. Once it was written, I posted it and shared it. Then I allowed myself…
Tuesday 28 January 2025: Good weekend
I didn’t do any work at the weekend. That’s one reason it was a good one. It meant I wasn’t so behind on anything that I felt the need to…
Monday 27 January 2025: Publication day!
I’m so stupidly pleased with myself that I got Words Worth Reading Issue Two out before the end of January. It’s had a couple of false starts over the past…
Friday 24 January 2025: Friday already – again!
So before I did actually call it a day on Wednesday, I contacted Support at Google Play Books. The techie there had a good look at everything and asked me…

































