Category: life as an author
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Today’s Thoughts…
I am in this kind of mood today, and as usual, one of Anita’s poems manages to address the thoughts I am having…
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Magical Monday…
Mornin’ Lovelies… I am in a fantastic mood today, which is one hell of a way to start the week! The weekend was spent working on my book. It seems to have suddenly grown wings, and ideas and literally thousands of words are clamouring to be written. I thought I could start this week doing…
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Review for The Convict and the Rose #Fiction #True Story Series @JanSikes3
Love knows no boundaries.This heart-wrenching, award-winning Biographical/Fiction sequel to Flowers and Stone shows how love can triumph over the toughest of odds. Join Luke and Darlina as they fight for freedom and battle to keep the flame of their love alive, even when separated by bars and distance. After Luke is sentenced to a seventy-five-year prison sentence,…
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Bits and Pieces…
I am still having trouble trying to find where I was before the bottom fell out of my world. I am making all kinds of progress in general, but not when it comes to writing, blogging and marketing, I try, but all I get are fragments. Bits and pieces of all the stuff I used…
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A meeting of the ways…
Detective Inspector David Snow… My office doesn’t look much like an office these days, what with catering to my suffering body, so I was very surprised when a familiar face appeared around the door. ‘Hi, Jaye. I thought I would pop in to see how you are. I heard the news and couldn’t believe…
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Best day of the week…
Yesterday was my 81st birthday. This has rapidly become my 18th, thanks to my family’s sense of humour. I like the sound of that so hopefully it will stick! The family arrived just after lunch, filling the house with excited chatter and laughter. Add in the antics of a very cheeky one year old and…
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Slipping back into business…
Further news of my progress back to normal… pain seems to be easing a little, and the exercises are getting less painful, so I’m feeling very optimistic. Very slow going though… I have just finishing reading the existing chapters of Swan Song, my current WIP. and I am quite impressed with what I have written…
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Now it begins…
It is glorious outside. I can see the sunshine through my window, but it’s a bit grim being stuck in my office. I have just done the morning’s exercises and taken the pills. Now I am sitting here resting on my heat pad, trying to feel normal and wondering what to do with myself. I…
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Review for Rivers of London…
Book 1 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch. My name is Peter Grant, and I used to be a probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service, and to everyone else as the Filth. My story really begins…