Writing

24/11/2023 0 Comments

My memoir ‘The Grace of a Nightingale’ is to be preserved in perpetuity within the five most prestigious libraries in the UK and Ireland: The...

06/12/2021 0 Comments

What is your calling? It was the end of British summertime 1994. I had become a child of God earlier that same year – Easter. Six months later I...

20/08/2021 0 Comments

From the distant ruins of my past there are both unwelcome and inspirational memories which have been revisited in order to write these memoirs...

16/07/2021 0 Comments

It was back in October 2016 that I contacted Helen to ask whether she would be interested in editing my memoir. This is what she says about...

05/07/2021 0 Comments

How do you choose the best editor for your work when there are hundreds of highly skilled and experienced ones to choose from? How do you know who...

08/01/2021 0 Comments

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance…when you come to see you are not as wise today as you...

22/07/2020 0 Comments

Writing your memoir can be exhausting, lonely and confusing. Here are some of the things I found helpful when writing my debut book….The...

11/06/2020 0 Comments

The creative writer…...

08/06/2020 0 Comments

People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of...

27/05/2020 0 Comments

Existential Crisis They said it would be useful, help me to ‘move on’, after all this time. And I did want to tell my story, I wanted to...

17/05/2020 0 Comments

As an eclectic music lover here are some of my favourite songs by indie artist Jon Fazal Belly of the Beast https://bit.ly/3dX8Vwn I Will (The...

30/04/2020 0 Comments

When we received The Grace of A Nightingale by Mary Anne Willow, her flawless writing impressed us, and we enjoyed reading through her submission...