Category: Blog from the Borders

If you’re near Wellington, Shropshire tomorrow, between 10am and 2pm, then pop into the fantastic library there and come and[…]

It’s sixteen years since my first book was published, and it still amazes me how it continues to sell. According[…]

Fancy meeting an author, or two, … or three, … or nineteen? I, along with another 18 authors, will be[…]

I don’t know if I still like you. You’re familiar, yet different. You’re still the same shape. You’ve reatined your[…]

One of my (many) little projects that I was working on over Christmas, was the updating and revision of my[…]

I can’t believe that it was back in June 2016 that the lovely Anita Loughrey chatted to me about my[…]

It’s double-issue time at The People’s Friend this week, with a bumper 144 pages in this week’s issue (dated 8th[…]

Another two years have passed, and so I’ve just published the next collection of articles from my Writing Magazine column. The[…]

Every six months I get my royalty statement from hatchette, and every six months I’m always astounded by the fact[…]

Last Friday, as part of the Church Stretton Arts Festival, I went to a talk by Phil Rickman, author of[…]

Woof, woof! Following the recent acquisition of the Bluffers Guide series by Haynes Publishing, I’m delighted to say that the[…]

Further to my open letter to the directors of Ti Media, publishers of Woman’s Weekly, the other week, I was[…]

Many congratulations to my agent, Kate Nash, who’s been selected as one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars of 2018. To[…]

A couple of weeks ago (I’ve been away and this has been my first opportunity to post something!) I was[…]