At the moment, with my head stuck in the PhD, it feels like that’s all there…
Evonne Wareham
Armchair travel
Regular readers will know I have a thing about holiday brochures. I have a fine collection,…
Research – It’s not just stuff in books …
… which is why, at the weekend, I was doing what might be called active research. …
When the machine knows more than you do. Or thinks it does.
That’s the spell checker, in case you’re wondering. Don’t get me wrong, I love the little…
Always something to think about
On Tuesday I had a fabulous day.I got out of the house and away from the…
On not reading serious books
Anyone who knows me knows that the part of my brain that doesn’t do the academic…
Changing the weather
One of the advantages of being a writer – amongst other things, you get to control…
Not quite research
Authors make jokes about research, Everything is research – even chocolate. This week I did some…
Write what you know – or write what you like?
One of the received wisdoms that new writers are handed as sage advice is ‘Write what…
Which comes first – the cover or the title?
Cover reveals are an important event in the life of a book – the first time…
From the Archive
Rambling around the further reaches of the blog and looking at old posts, I found this…
The delight of too many commas.
Writing up a PhD calls for a complete change of my writing style, or maybe a…
So many plots – and no time. At all.
Writers’ Block is fairly well known – when a writer finds he/she cannot write for some…
Good wishes for the holidays
Just a post to wish everyone A Very Happy Christmas And if you do happen to…
Romantic Suspense for Christmas
Reggie with one of my posh postcards. He was very impressed,and it’s not easy to impress…
Why I’ll never write literary fiction.
Let’s face it – I don’t have deep thoughts, or a message, or anything like that. I…
Celebration of release day – the What Happens at Christmas Location Tour.
The official release day for the paperback and audio versions of What Happens At Christmas is on…
Reviving a manuscript
Should you ever try to revive an old manuscript? When you have been in the Romantic…
The use of silence
Writing this in the week when the Armistice that ended World War One was commemorated, when…
I’ve never done NaNoWriMo … yet.
A book. In a month??? For those not into the jargon – NaNoWriMo is a collective…
When the leaves are turning …
Autumn is my least favourite season, especially after the clocks have changed. I don’t do well…