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Mistletoe and Crime Book Review
With thanks to Red Dog Press and for the review copy. Blurb It’s Christmas! A year since their last case, and Adam and Colin are called out of semi-retirement when Stonebridge legend and regular town Santa, Gerald Agnew, is found dead in the snow. The police believe his death to be a drunken accident, but…
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Beach Cat Blues Blog Tour
Beach Cat Blues by Alison O’Leary With thanks to Red Dog Press and Alison O’Leary for the preview copy of Beach Cat Blues. Synopsis: Aubrey does love to be beside the seaside. All those rock pools to muck about in, the caves to explore, endless food opportunities from the beach huts. Life is good.…
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Book Review – Burying the Newspaper Man by Curtis Ippolito
With thanks to Red Dog Press and Curtis Ippolito for the advance copy Welcome to my part of the Book Tour! Burying the Newspaper Man is not the type of book I read very often. It is not a genre that I would normally choose to read, but as part of a Book Club,…
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Business Owner – How to Improve your Website
Have you been thinking that it’s time to improve your website? It’s been years since you did anything with your business website. The About information is out of date and the last blog post is dated 2018. Perhaps you have some products that you should add, but you never seem to have any time. The…
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Freelance Writing – How to Prepare to Meet with a Client
A client has made contact and they are looking for someone to do some freelance writing, freelance web design or some other kind of work. There’s just one catch: they want to meet in person. What should you do? Nine times out of ten, freelance work is contracted through online contact. Clients can find you…
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch – should you write for free?
Actually, there is such a thing as a free lunch! My church put on a free lunch on the first Saturday of every month. They offer soup, fresh crusty bread and cakes, and it is very popular. Some of the homeless people in the town are waiting eagerly outside, at 12 pm, ready to come…
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Day 15: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Editing a Story – Characters
On days 11 and 12 I published two halves of a story. This story was written for the purpose of showing you what I do when I edit. I have deliberately published a first draft, with very little editing apart from immediately spotting spelling mistakes etc so that you can see how it will change…
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Day 13: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – 10 Ideas for Writer’s Inspiration
My story was written by using a picture as a prompt. I keep a folder called ‘Writer’s Inspiration’ on my Pinterest account. Any picture that looks like it could come in handy as part of a story some day is saved there. Using picture prompts is a great way to inspire a story. Here are…
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Time to Change…
It’s time to change. This blog has been getting a bit stale recently and I have decided that 2015 is the year that things are going to be different. Here are some of the brilliant things that will be happening around here this year. There are going to be interviews with authors, freelance writers, copywriters,…
