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The Celebrity Book Deal Dilemma in Fiction Publishing

How to Promote Your Book in a Way That Suits Your Personality

Monday Motivation post about the achievements of Toni Morrison

Writing to Market vs. Writing from the heart

How to stay motivated when you're in a bad mood.

Thursday Thoughts, how readers can support independent authors

This Monday Motivation is the story of Melody Gardot and her determination to never give up on her dream.

This is the journey of how I turned an idea into a book.

How I combine historical fact with my historical fiction

These are 6 tiny habit that help you fulfil your dreams.

This is the picture that captured the spirit of my latest novel, The Long Way Home. Set on the West Indian island of Dominica, The Long...

How and why Yoga and Qi Gong is good for women over 50.

Well, it's finally here and I'm very pleased to announce the publication of book 2 in the Island Secrets Series - A Prayer For Junie The...

Just me, grinning with a mixture of pride, happiness and relief that I made it in one piece to publication day. Ten years since edition 1...

Chapter 1 of new book release Holding Paradise by Fran Clark

A sneak peek at the blurb of Holding Paradise novel by Fran Clark

This is a book I borrowed from Prime Reading, which is free if you're a member. Being a lover of free things I stopped to look at this...

For the last few weeks I have been going around in circles trying to make decisions about how I should spend my very meagre advertising...

What Are You Looking Forward to Most in 2024? For me it's all about inviting inevitable change, looking forward with positivity and...