I’ve not read a Belinda Bauer book for a while and I’m not sure exactly why, but when I saw that this had been picked for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and it was a crime novel, well, I had to read it. The opening chapter is just brilliant, completely gripping and terrifying. A
Working from home sounds fantastic, until the school holidays roll around. I work in an office, but do all my writing work at home, so as it’s the holidays and a few of you are working from home, I thought I’d share a couple of things I do for getting work done. Schedule self
I’ve not done a book review for an age and what has happened to book club I hear you ask? Well, time, my friends, time. Time has gotten away from me and although I’ve been reading many books, I’ve forgotten to update the book club choices and stopped doing book reviews. I know, it’s not
A logline is the first thing I concentrate on when writing a book before writing anything else. Not the characters, plot twists, or a particular scene, but the logline. And it’s not easy. As this blog is now up and running, I thought I’d write about the process of how I write a book. I’ve
Giant bubbles. They sound fun don’t they? Well, let me assure you, they most certainly are. No matter what your age, whether you have kids or not, if you feel a bit down, or grumpy, spend some time making giant bubbles and I promise you’ll feel better. For starters, it’ll get you outside. You’re reading
In my previous life, before I had kids, I used to read about three of four books a week. No joke. I remember long afternoons lying on my bed reading, whole weekends where I’d be able to float about the house, nothing to do other than lose myself in whatever book I had on the
This white chocolate cookie recipe is a favourite in our house and I put the ‘gooey’ in there because that’s exactly how I’d describe the cookies when they come out of the oven. Warm, sweet and deliciously gooey. We use white chocolate in ours, but if you’re not a fan (whaaaaaat?????) then substitute it for
Writing pad (or notebooks) are underestimated. In the age of the smartphone, I can understand how the humble writing pad has lost some of its appeal. I used to be the same, I’d think, ‘I’ve got my phone, with it’s handy notepad feature, why would I need to lug a writing pad about?’ But since
