Greetings and welcome to my very first Newsletter. Autumn, when tawny leaves wave goodbye to summer, marks the finale of a year – an ending, but this year for me, it is a new beginning – the start of a
Read my short story – “The Proposal” – FREE!
I invite you to join my mailing list and get free access to this short story. I am currently very busy with a number of new projects, one of which involves the issue of a monthly newsletter, so I would be delighted
Covid induced gardening creativity
The isolation of the last long months in lockdown has had a really negative effect on my writing – something that I never envisaged would happen to me – I became totally demotivated; it wasn’t writer’s block, I just did
Music, Tragedy and Turmoil – Fascinating Facts about Historic Beverley – my favourite Yorkshire town.
A traffic snarl-up in the centre of York last summer led to a spur-of-the-moment decision to abandon a trip to the East Coast and instead to head for one of my favourite places, historic Beverley. Each time I’ve visited, I’ve
Journal of a North Country Lock-down
Journal of a North Country Lock-down. Autumn is well under way, Winter is knocking on our doors – what a strange and frightening year it has turned out to be – with the dreaded Coronavirus rearing its monstrous head at
A Hint of History – Meet the Young Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon
During the long weeks of Lockdown, I often walked the footpaths that run through the deer park and woods surrounding Fountains Abbey. The abbey itself was closed to visitors but being a local, I know where the public footpaths are
My interview on Romance Author, Elizabeth N Harris’s ‘Helping Indie Authors’ page.
A little while ago, I was delighted to be asked and agreed to do an interview on Elizabeth N Harris’s website – and today she featured me on her ‘Helping Indie Authors‘ Blog as her author of the week. Elizabeth
A Chorus of Seven – newly published
This year we, ‘The Scriveners,’ a group of seven authors, celebrate seven years together. We were established in May 2013, in one of the smallest and most charming Cathedral cities in North Yorkshire, as part of a new branch of
Stanley’s Spring Chronicle
Hello there, I’ve not been here for a while, so I thought I’d give you a quick update on what I’ve been up to since I last wrote a post. After I helped with her end-of-Winter tidy-up in the garden,
Yorkist Stories – in aid of Medecins Sans Frontieres
‘Yorkist Stories’ a fabulous collection of stories has just been published on Amazon and is about the men and women who found themselves either by birth, marriage or fate, on the Yorkist side of the Wars of the Roses. The
