Being 'FATE-fully' collective – Jean Gill

I’m delighted to welcome Jean Gill, the award-winning Welsh author and photographer now living in the south of France. Her claim to fame is that she was the first woman to be a secondary school headteacher in the Welsh county of Dyfed.

Best known for her adult medieval adventure fiction, […]

The Agony of Anthologies? – Helen Hollick

Helen Hollick and short story collections

I’m always very pleased to welcome Helen Hollick to my writing blog. Known for her captivating storytelling and rich attention to historical detail, her historical fiction, nautical adventure series, cosy mysteries – and her short stories – skilfully invite readers to step into worlds where the boundaries between fact and fiction blend together.

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Disappearing medieval women and fate – Janet Reedman

I’m delighted to welcome JP (Janet) Reedman to my blog today. JP is is one of my fellow authors selected to write for a new collection of short stories ‘FATE’, commissioned by the Taw River Press.

Janet was born in Canada but has lived in the UK for over 30 years. […]

Death and the Poet - Fiona Forsyth

I’m delighted to welcome another scribe of Roman fiction to the writing blog today – Fiona Forsyth – as part of her Coffee Pot Book Club tour.

After reading Classics at Oxford, Fiona taught it at a boys’ public school for twenty-five years. A family move to Qatar provided few […]

Boycotting Amazon?

Woman reading ebook

Photo: AllaSerebrina

Love it or hate it, Amazon, is now part of our lives. Even if we prioritise buying local, we slip into the seductive single click of buying online from the world’s biggest universal supplier.

As part of the popular antipathy to large corporates prevalent in the digiverse at present (for a […]