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Hallelujah for 50ft Women
Mentioned in the first review (and a 5* one too!)
The first review of the poetry anthology ‘Hallelujah for 50ft Women’ actually quotes from my poem – quite a compliment given the big names in the book. Spot the quote, Jean Gill fans!
Join me in a friendly qu & a session
Love Memoirs? Join We Love Memoirs on facebook
Please join me for a friendly qu & a any time on Sunday May 3rd. I’m in interview all day (except when I need to eat, pee or sleep) You need to join the group on facebook so don’t leave it to the last minute! Qus can be on any of my books or about me,…
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Blanche in interview
It's a dog meet dog world
Twitter is going to the dogs and I’m afraid Blanche used the B-word when interviewed by Clowie, another Great Pyrenees. She likes to sound tough. I think we got away with it though – gorgeous blondes often do. ‘Proud Human’ Read the interview here
Threads of Love Poster
Primroses in Provence
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!
Hahlelujah for 50ft Women
Poems about women's relationship to their bodies
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 and Daughters: it’s complicated
Love, hate,rivalry,care,protection,indifference...
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
The politics of lipstick
Writers' responses to my photo
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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Latest from the Wishing Shelf Awards
One Sixth of a Gill
‘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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Finalist in The Wishing Shelf Awards
One Sixth of a Gill
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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