This week I’ve been inspired by women standing up for themselves and for others in the face of what seems to be a bad B grade movie. Scenes of women marching in cities all over the world flooded the internet (see pics here) after Trump’s inauguration along with a...
If you’ve read my books you’ll know I write a lot about loss and grief, family and friendship. They’re preoccupations of mine, not on a conscious level, but on that deeper plane that we tap into when we write from the heart. Lately though, I’ve spent more time...
At the recent memorial service for Hachette CEO Matt Richell, tragically taken way too early in a surfing accident, an extract from Raymond Carver’s This Morning was read along with a number of other passages from Matt’s favourite works. The passage from This Morning...
So how did your January go? Did you achieve all you wanted to writing wise? Or when you tally up your words does the total fall drastically short of what you wanted to achieve? My January was both good and bad. I managed to do more blog posts than ever before (thanks...
Last Friday I had an inspiring day which can be summed up by these three words: Daring to Dream. First stop on my schedule was a visit to Kambala where I was doing a presentation for Room to Read, a fantastic not-for-profit organisation which I volunteer for and which...
As a writer of Women’s Fiction I’m always on the lookout for articles and stories dealing with issues relating to women. This week in her blog Naomi Simpson shared some wonderful words of wisdom from writer Maya Angelou that I wanted to share with you...
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