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December 18, 2013
Guest Post - How I cheated my way through NaNoWriMo and why I’ll do it again.
It's nearly Christmas. Oh God, time is slipping away too fast, it only seems five minutes since I wrote my last Christmas post 'Jingle Bells'. Well this week, we have the first of our seasonal treats and it's all about cheating, which is sort of what I'm doing right now, having a guest blogger! It's by one of my favourite writers and tweeters, Louise West. She was organised enough to do NaNoWriMo this year and she tells us all how she did it ... And next week, I promis...
December 6, 2013
Back to the Future
This week, I decided to finish something I started a few years ago. As I don’t have the use of a DeLorian, flux capacitor and Michael J Fox, I had to dig out the file myself and pick up where I left off…
Can you imagine what and where you were four years ago? I was living in Leeds, doing the day job taming lion cubs. I had shorter hair and I was pretending that I didn't care about getting close to 40. I had recently been on some shocking dates and thus The Ghost Hunters...
Can you imagine what and where you were four years ago? I was living in Leeds, doing the day job taming lion cubs. I had shorter hair and I was pretending that I didn't care about getting close to 40. I had recently been on some shocking dates and thus The Ghost Hunters...
November 30, 2013
Interview with Rosen Trevithick
It’s nearly Christmas, at least so the supermarkets keep telling me, and so here is the first of a series of Christmas treats that I've got in store for you over the next few weeks. This week, I spoke to #1 bestselling indie author, Rosen Trevithick, about her new release of short stories, Seesaw II. It’s a mixture of the funny and the seriously gripping, and a definite download onto your Kindle.
Seesaw was the first of your stories I read, and it was successful as w...
Seesaw was the first of your stories I read, and it was successful as w...
November 22, 2013
One Is a Prime Number
This week, I ponder on the number one. I’m rubbish at maths but I do know that a prime number is only divisible by one and itself. So that’s an ideal number for when you’re writing …
I was talking to someone the other day and they mentioned they wanted to go and see the new Hunger Games film, Catching Fire, at the cinema but that they didn't have anyone to go with. ‘Well just go by yourself then,’ I said. The look of horror on their face as I made this shocking suggesti...
I was talking to someone the other day and they mentioned they wanted to go and see the new Hunger Games film, Catching Fire, at the cinema but that they didn't have anyone to go with. ‘Well just go by yourself then,’ I said. The look of horror on their face as I made this shocking suggesti...
November 13, 2013
Goals! Goals! Goals!
A crap date and being stuck on the A14 for two hours afterwards got me thinking about striving less and the valuing of sitting down and having a cup of tea and just enjoying the moment. As my old boss used to say: ‘Sometimes I likes to sits and thinks, and sometimes, I just sits...’
No dear readers, I have not suddenly become interested in football. The only time I do take an interest in the beautiful game is during the World Cup when England is playing. I get the basic conce...
No dear readers, I have not suddenly become interested in football. The only time I do take an interest in the beautiful game is during the World Cup when England is playing. I get the basic conce...
November 6, 2013
The Perils of Being a Girl Who Can't Say No
It's guest post time again. Now when it comes to cocktails, chocolate and small furry animals, and the odd man, temptation comes knocking on my door and I have no self-control. But I also have something in common with Julia Hughes in that stupid decisions have a habit of snowballing. Horses, superglue and a naughty terrier – sounds like something The Ghost Hunters’ Club would get tangled up in. Julia, excellent indie author and all round good egg, tells us why doing things at two in the...
October 31, 2013
Ghost Hunting with C L Raven
Halloween is here and I get to shed the normal disguise of jeans and a hoody and don my pointy hat and broomstick and be amongst my own kind...
The day of the dead is here and today I’ll be all about the spook. Apart from taekwondo, live music, wine and my hamster, there’s nothing I like more than a jolly good ghost story. I like a shiver up my spine and for once, I’m not being smutty. And we’re not short of them this year; there’s a glut of ghost stories that have...
The day of the dead is here and today I’ll be all about the spook. Apart from taekwondo, live music, wine and my hamster, there’s nothing I like more than a jolly good ghost story. I like a shiver up my spine and for once, I’m not being smutty. And we’re not short of them this year; there’s a glut of ghost stories that have...
October 23, 2013
Pretentious, Moi?
Sorry I've been away for a while, been busy editing the latest novel. But while I've been away, there’s been a worrying amount of pompous crap going on...
I have a problem and it is to do with writing. After talking to several people over the past couple of weeks, I've discovered I’m lacking something. I can write novels, I can write blog posts and articles, I can spell and do punctuation but there is one thing I can’t do, and that is talk bollocks. ...
I have a problem and it is to do with writing. After talking to several people over the past couple of weeks, I've discovered I’m lacking something. I can write novels, I can write blog posts and articles, I can spell and do punctuation but there is one thing I can’t do, and that is talk bollocks. ...
September 27, 2013
Lies, Damned Lies and Book Reviews
It's competition time ! Read to the end of the post to find out how to win a copy of 'How To Write a Novel.'
This week I've gone a bit Oscar Wilde, not in the Reading Gaol sense of the word, but in questioning the reliability of information ...
Imagine you’re going for a job interview. You've put lots of effort into preparing for it; bought yourself a suit to impress your new boss and written a CV that astound even God. Nothing is going to get in your way, not t...
This week I've gone a bit Oscar Wilde, not in the Reading Gaol sense of the word, but in questioning the reliability of information ...
Imagine you’re going for a job interview. You've put lots of effort into preparing for it; bought yourself a suit to impress your new boss and written a CV that astound even God. Nothing is going to get in your way, not t...
September 15, 2013
A Touch of History
I've been looking at my story Two Penny Blue and I think I feel another time travel story coming on...
I fear an affliction has taken a hold on me. I managed to avoid it for a long time – indeed for a while my mother was affected by this fever, but she managed to shake it off after the second series because, ‘I realised that I was being lame and your father nearly lost the will to live.’ But it crept up on me when I least expected it because on ITV3, just as I've got in from w...
I fear an affliction has taken a hold on me. I managed to avoid it for a long time – indeed for a while my mother was affected by this fever, but she managed to shake it off after the second series because, ‘I realised that I was being lame and your father nearly lost the will to live.’ But it crept up on me when I least expected it because on ITV3, just as I've got in from w...
