I was delighted to be invited to speak at the International Dublin Writers’ Festival again. This year, the theme was the creative well, something essential to good writing, but a slippery one to grasp. In essence, it’s the part of you that feeds your imagination. If it’s kept at a healthy level, it will […]
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Whether you’re invited or have submitted a pitch to speak at a conference it’s the same on the day. You have a mass of faces in front of you. You re alone in the arena and the lions are pacing back and forth, tongues salivating. The be-tunicked and be-toga-ed are watching, a smile on their […]
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Receiving my certificates and livret de famille from the Préfète des Deux-Sèvres, Emmanuelle Dubée
In November 2019, I applied for French nationality.
On 14 April 2022, I had an official email informing me I had achieved it.
Last week, on 1 February 2023, I participated in an official ceremony and handed a sheaf […]
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Let’s face it – 2022 has been a weird year.
Coming out of the strict Covid regulations and try to recover a ‘normal’ (ha-ha!) book life, I planned a busy year. And so it turned out:
On 3 January, I published my husband’s fantastic book File of Facts about using personal organisers. (He is […]
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When I checked when I’d written my last post, I was horrified out of my socks. May! And it was a feature about my esteemed writing friend Jane Davis’s beautiful new book, Small Eden. It’s achingly well written – I will never be able to write such clever and evocative prose.
Since then, radio silence […]
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