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My photo as the background for one of Threads of Love’s inspirational posters – creative teamwork between me in Provence and Margaret Ann Loveday, author of ‘Emily’, living in Australia. The Internet does indeed allow beautiful friendships.

I’m so pleased. The Troubadours: Song at Dawn is on offer at 99c/99p until 12th April and it’s reached No 1 in amazon’s historical fiction chart. Thank you, readers!

Just got my pre-publication copy of the Raving Beauties poetry anthology featuring one of my poems – alongside some very big names! Carol Ann Duffy, Menna Elfyn, Grace Nichols, Sujata Bhatt, E.J.Scovell, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Sally Read, Selima Hill, Anna Swir, Frances Kay… and me 🙂 First impressions? Powerful, surprising, inevitably some gritty swearing and…
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Mothers & daughters – sometimes more thorns than roses. Jane Davis’s thought-provoking blog details books exploring this relationship, including one of mine. Guess which? You’ll find the answer here – with some great reading suggestions

It’s very moving for someone who’s a writer AND a photographer to see such high quality writing, from so many writers, in response to one of my photos. I created the image in response to a brief from a book publisher, wanting objects that represented sisters, who were different, and when I looked around at…
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‘One Sixth of a Gill’ is a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards so it has gained this sticker but we authors have been told to await judgement before using it in case we have gold, silver or bronze… 3 weeks till we find out so meanwhile, this is the sticker in hand as opposed…
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A good week! I was half-way through ‘Plaint for Provence’ , stopped to play with my brand new camera – a Nikon D750, which is so high-tech it probably makes tea if I find the right buttons, and then I had the news that ‘One Sixth of a Gill’ is a finalist in the Adult…
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‘Someone To Look Up To’ made it to amazon.com bestseller status today –  I really think it will be his year although he can’t be Number 1 all the time so I captured the moment. Woohoo! http://smarturl.it/sirius

Find out more about ‘Someone to Look Up To’ – my interview on Meghan Riley’s blog 

Do you remember I interviewed author Angela Graff of the Judas Kiss/Curse fame on my blog here? She’s only one of the authors on the Bookgoodies Stand at the HUGE Tucson Book Festival 14th 15th March. My books will be there on the stand at reduced prices so if you can get to Tucson, check…
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