Tag: Words Worth Reading
Wednesday 12 November 2025: More covers work
Yesterday morning began, bright and early again, with me first letting the puppy out and then feeding them both about an hour later. I had my dirty cuppa and read…
Wednesday 6 August 2025: Catching up for last week
I’m way behind on the blog posts at the moment. I’ll try and keep them short and sweet so that I can catch up a bit. Last Tuesday By the…
Wednesday 30 July 2025: Publication Day!
It’s publication day today for my BOOKAZINE Words Worth Reading: Issue Four. I’m so happy I managed to get the July issue out while it was still July. In this…
Thursday 17 April 2025: Publication day!
It’s publication day today for Words Worth Reading Issue 3, my quarterly bookazine. This quarter the bookazine contains three brand-new and exclusive short stories: Elvis is Missing; The Battle of…
Monday 14 April 2025: The bookazine is coming on
Oh my gosh, I got a lot done on Friday morning. I was up with the poet and making phone calls to do all sorts of things. Order our repeat…
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…
Thursday 23 January 2025: Slight change of plan
I had one of those nights where I wake up from a deep sleep with a solution I didn’t even know I was looking for. I’d already decided that I…
Thursday 16 January 2025: Keeping busy
Before I did anything else yesterday morning, I threw several buckets of warm, soapy water at the patio to clean up some of the trash the birds had left during…
Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!
Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…
Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up
Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…
Monday 11 November 2024: Remembrance Day
The only thing I really worked on on Friday was The Secret of Whitehorse Farm. And even then it was only pre-writing. Everything else was on binder work in Scrivener…
Monday 14 October 2024: Northern Lights
We had a late night on Thursday, binge watching something on Netflix. Fortunately, it meant we were still up to watch one of the apparently best ever shows of the…
Wednesday 11 September 2024: WORDS WORTH READING Issue One out now!
It’s been a while since I made any promotional material. I forgot to do this for Monday’s post, forgot it yesterday, but remembered it today…(Well, I remembered it yesterday really,…
Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule
On Thursday night I went to bed with a good feeling: I didn’t have to get up to do any work for anyone else in the morning, only me. That…
Monday 19 August 2024: More unexpected DIY
I spent most of Friday catching up with the proofreading job. I’d done my own proofreading, but now I had to consolidate mine with the author’s and the proofreader’s. It…
Friday 16 August 2024: Up to my neck in pictures
Oh, my goodness! I’ve only gone and chosen an image by the founder of Pixabay himself! 😮 The day started quite well yesterday. The plan was to finally send out…
Friday 9 August 2024: It’s NOT piracy – it’s deliberate 😕
After we got back from our tea the poet had some work to do, so while he did that I started to brainstorm my story for 12 STORIES IN 12…
Friday 23 February 2024: Things picking up again
It started to rain during the night on Wednesday. I remember waking up and registering it and then going straight back to sleep. Instead of lying there listening to it!…
Friday 5 January 2024: Running smoothly
Wednesday I didn’t get up on time on Wednesday thanks to the dog waking me up at 4:30am and me failing to get back to sleep until 10 minutes after…
Thursday 4 January 2024: A new regime
While the new regime wasn’t supposed to start until Tuesday, I did actually do some work on Monday too. We’d already spent some time rearranging the office, and on Monday…
Friday 29 December 2023: The bit in the middle
Did you have a lovely Christmas? Ours was very relaxed. We didn’t do any baking, but of course the poet still cooked us a rather splendid Christmas dinner. We had…
Friday 8 December 2023: Forgive me while I work things out
The last two jobs I did on Tuesday were rearranging a lot of my files on the laptop into something that’s hopefully a bit more streamlined, and starting today’s blog…
Wednesday 29 November 2023: The year has flown
And just like that, November was almost over. It’s my November wrap-up post tomorrow, so this is the last post before the December run. I can’t believe how quickly the…
Wednesday 22 November 2023: Immersing myself in science fiction
The hedgehog returned on Tuesday night. I still thought it looked a bit small, so I asked the poet for his opinion, and he assured me that it’s a fully…































