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PURE DANI: Love in another country FREE on KU; £1.99 ebook or £6.99 paperback
This is the third of the Daniela Hoffman Family Matters series. Family drama in the tropics. Daniela arrives overseas with her mother, but their new life starts with a shock. Her mother’s new…
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THE THIRD FATHER – FREE on KU or £1.99 ebook, £6.99 paperback
This is the second of the Daniela Hoffman Family Matters series. Daniela loves Steve, her second father who has lived with them for ten years, but her mother is besotted with a man…
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DANIELA HOFFMAN IS NOT STUPID – FREE DOWNLOAD Feb 14 – 18th (or £6.99 paperback)
This is the first of the Daniela Hoffman Family Matters series. Daniela is clever and has taught herself to be tough, but she can’t cope at school and things go from bad to…
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Comma Crisis
Help! Suddenly, nothing looks right. I don’t know where to put the commas. Or should I sweep them away? In the middle of the proof-reading I was doing, I had a comma crisis.…
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Creating a lovable main character
What do you remember about the books that you’ve read? Long after you’ve finished reading, what do you remember most? Not the glorious prose, not the description of the landscape, not even the…
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Is your book the right size?
Does size matter? Is there an ideal size to choose? Amazon KDP gives you a choice of book sizes – trim sizes and I’ve chosen 5.25 x 8 inches (13.34 x 20.32 cms).…
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3 ways to check the rhythm & flow of your writing
Whenever we read anything, we hear it in our minds. Even deaf people do this. We need an auditory representation of every word in order for the text to make sense. Imagine then…
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Every piece of prose should be a poem
Every piece of prose should be a poem. I’ve just reread the piece I wrote for my bookchat post in the Hastings Online Times this week and I don’t like the way it…
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Hey there 2020 – wait for me!
This is the first post of the new year. You’ll be thinking that I’ve dropped into a hole somewhere and gone to sleep – but no! Here I am waving hello. How are…
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Slow down, you move too fast
Are you racing around getting ready for Christmas? What I want to do is carry on proof-reading. I’ve only got as far as chapter 22 (out of 42). There’s no time. I’ve got…
