• Jet Pet is coming to life!

    Jet Pet is coming to life!

    Hello! If you’re a follower on Instagram or Facebook, you’ll have noticed my elation (and please excuse my slightly crazed expression!) at finishing the first draft of the first book in my new Jet Pet series: From The Future To Save The Past!  I’ve had to remind myself this is just the first stage – being for…

  • Where have I been?

    Where have I been?

    Obviously, the Self-Publishing Show Live conference for 2024 has just been and gone, and it was as jam-packed with insights and opinions as you’d expect. Last year, I came away from the event completely inspired and thinking it was all doable. This year, with a website, a mailing list, completed covers, two books out, two more soon to follow and…

  • I Love Asking The Audience

    I Love Asking The Audience

    I was nervous. I was confused. I was unsure what to do. But, working on my own, I had no-one to ask. Except my friends on Facebook. So, I posted the logo for the Bug Squad series, but confessed I was already thinking of something else. Something that sounded more fun, more furry and more…

  • So much news!

    So much news!

    This has been one of those weeks where I worry that I’m bombarding my friends’ and readers’ social media feeds with too many announcements. But there’s been no way around it – I’ve simply had a lot to shout about! Everything is a big deal when you’re in your early days as an author, so you…

  • Nobody wants to hear about tech

    Nobody wants to hear about tech

    The past week has been dominated by technical wresting. First you have the clear idea of how things should go. Then you find it takes longer than you thought. Then it doesn’t work how you thought. Then you spend way too long trying to figure it out yourself. And then you drop a line to…

  • That Tentative First Post

    That Tentative First Post

    Let’s start out as we mean to carry on. I’m going to divide articles up into neat sections, which should make it easier to enjoy for you, and easier to write for me. Win-win! And we’ll get to what that picture of a bunch of teds wishing our boy good luck is all about in…