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H is for Highway to Hell #AtoZChallenge Day 8 and with it comes a #CoverReveal

I sat behind my machine for a long time today try to think of a post to write that had something to do with the letter ‘H’. Now I am going to put it down to the long and heavy week I’ve had at work, because it just hit be like a slap to the […]

G is for Grabbing Their Attention and Not Letting Go. #AtoZChallenge Day 7

As writers, we may not be the most sociable creatures, however, we do still enjoy getting the attention. Only, we like to do it with our words, wherever possible. Grabbing the attention of a reader is a key part in not only selling your book, but in growing your platform. Increasing your audience is not […]

F is to Follow the Flames

Smoke and mirrors. The tendrils are rising. Swirling into the air that they have polluted for you. They control the winds, and will see to it that you are smoked from your lives and placed back under their righteous control. They are the masters of the untruth, and the heat of their judgement will be […]

E is for the not Taking the Easy Way Out and Earning It.

It is day 5 of the AtoZChallenge, and that means the letter ‘E’ is up to bat. *** We live in a world driven by speed. A world that offers almost everything instantly, and were our expectations are that should a result or a response not come instantly, or close to it, then something has […]

Kids Mean Never Needing an Excuse to Play

Well, the first four days of the A to Z Challenge are in the bag, and I have to say it has been pretty good fun until now. I understand that these early days are still very much the ‘honeymoon’ stage of the relationship, and it will get harder, but having the obligation to blog […]

D is for Dreams

Today is the fourth day of the A to Z Challenge and the letter D is up at the oche. I had a lot of different options running through my mind for today’s post. Darkness and death, deserts and deeply dismal days in the middle of spring. I also dabbled with the decision of drafting […]

C is for…

I remember the first time she spoke to me. She was sitting outside, beneath the stars. The moonlight reflecting on her skin. She was naked as the day she was born. She was true. That was what we talked about. That first night, and many nights thereafter. The truth. So often, they tell us about […]

B is for Balls!

Day two of the AtoZChallenge has dawned and I already had this post planned out yesterday. I am not sure how often I will know what I am going to write about before I actually sit down to pen the post, but fingers crossed it is more times than usual. The letter B is the […]

#AtoZChallenge Day 1 – A is for Art

I have been meaning to take part in this event for a number of years now, and while I talked about it earlier in the year with a few friends of mine, I had totally forgotten about it until today. The A-Z challenge sounds like just the right thing I need to get my blogging […]

What is Worse?

As writers, what would you say is worse: To have so many ideas bouncing around in your head, that there would never be enough paper to write them all down, but to have no time to write any of them, or, To have all of the time in the world to write, but no inspriation to fill […]