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Childhood Memories - Fairy Tales #MonsterMonday

Childhood Memories - Fairy Tales
Welcome to the new year and a slight change of topic for Mondays - from now on Monster Mondays are going to be Monsters, Myths and Magic Mondays - but we'll still call them Monster Mondays for short.

Growing up I was very fond of fairy tales, and I have some treasured memories of reading them and having them read to me. However, as is always the case with memory, lots of bits are missing. I thought it might be fun for us to share our favourite fairy tales from m...

Manifesto of Meow - #FreeFictionFriday

Free Fiction Friday
Happy New Year and all that, in case this is your first visit to my blog this Jan. Hope 2018 is going well for everyone.

It's the first Friday of the month which means it's Free Fiction Friday over at Wittegen Press. January can be such a dismal month, what with all the rain and the holidays being over, so we've gone with some humour for this month's story. It also has cats, so it's a win/win :).

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Charlie Waterman Trilogy now in Paperback #WriterlyWednesdays

Charlie Waterman Trilogy now in PaperbackHello and welcome to my blog in what I hope will be a wonderful new year. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. I am starting the year off as I hope to go on with a book announcement. The Chronicles of Charlie Waterman are now available in paperback - finally! And since I've had to read them all so many times lately, I even have the beginnings of an idea for number 4!

Come on, most of us bibliophiles can agree, there's nothing like holding a r...

Merry Christmas One and All!

To all who celebrate Christmas, I wish you the blessings of the season.To all those celebrating other festivals, may you have a joyous time.To those who do not celebrate at all, I hope you enjoy those that do being a little nicer to each other and their fellow humans.To those who are feeling pain at this time of year, for whatever reason, I wish you peace.
And to one and all a Happy and Hopeful New Year.
It's been something of a stressful year for my family, so we are looking forward to saying...

Merry Mid-Winter! by Natasha Duncan-Drake #FreeFictionFriday

Free Fiction Friday
And December is here - I'm so excited - this is my favourite month of the year. Most of the family are December babies, so we have a season of birthdays as well as Christmas to look forward to. However, before that, it's the first Friday of the month which means it's Free Fiction Friday over at Wittegen Press. This month we have a fantasy version of the wonderful "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens for our lovely readers, with fairies and fauns and magic.

T...

Recipe - White Chocolate, Mascarpone and Puffed Wheat Cheesecake with Dark Chocolate Ganache

White Chocolate, Mascarpone and Puffed Wheat Cheesecake with Dark Chocolate GanacheThis is most definitely not a recipe for every day, it is delicious and very decadent! It is something of an amalgam of recipes because I went to a birthday party the other day and they had this wonderful birthday cheesecake. I asked about the recipe, as you do, but didn't get all the details, hence I used what I had gathered and looked at other recipes. I have reduced the amount of ganache in this recipe to th...

Recipe - Delicious & Fun Lasagna Pockets

Delicious & Fun Lasagna PocketsThis recipe is based off a Twisted recipe and they have a great video to show how the pockets go together, but I changed the underlying recipe somewhat, so this is my version. I made this yesterday and my husband ate three of them, so I'm counting them as a win. They would be great for a dinner party or a lot of fun for children because there is always something more fun about having our own individual little parcel than just a chunk of a whole.
However, do n...

A Matter of Will by Natasha Duncan-Drake #FreeFictionFriday

Free Fiction Friday
And November is here - soon it'll be Christmas and we won't know where the year went :). It's the first Friday of the month which means it's Free Fiction Friday over at Wittegen Press. This month we have a novelette for our lovely readers, with werewolves and vampires and magic.

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Good luck to all those doing NaNoWriMo

It's day one of NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month when thousands of writers make it their goal to write 50K or more words throughout November.

This year I am passing on NaNo and the whole starting a new novel thing. I've chosen to concentrate on short stories for various projects, and finishing the editing/formatting of my existing novels so they are ready for paperback in time for Christmas. I've written my first 2K today on one short story, so all is going well from my end so fa...

All Hallows Read - Free Book - Possession Is Nine Tenths of the Law

All Hallows Read
Free Book
Possession is Nine Tenths of the Lawby Natasha Duncan-Drake & Sophie DuncanAs is our tradition at Halloween, Soph and I are supporting All Hallows Read once again. The idea is that instead of candy we give out a free book. This makes giving over the internet much easier and promotes the joy of reading, so it's win/win!
Our book this year is called Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law and it has two spooky stories in it to tingle the spine:
Looking for Luticia by Nat...