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Folklore and Dystopian Britain: Verge by Nadia Attia
This one's pretty special. Years ago I was at a Byte The Book event when I met Nadia Attia. We bonded over our shared hatred of networking and our frustrations with the publishing world. So I was utterly delighted when the release of her debut novel popped up on my...
Artist’s Way Week 7: The Curse of Perfectionism
The reading in the opening of this week felt incredibly relevant to me. As I turned each page I was thinking ‘yes. that’s me, I do that all the time!’ in a way I perhaps haven’t had with other weeks. The three main ideas that came up were perfectionism, taking risks...
Making March: The Power of Creating Stuff
At the start of March I set myself a seemingly simple goal: to make things. While a lot of my time gets poured into writing, editing, coaching others in their creative projects, creating workshops, all of these things are not exactly tangible. Words on a page can feel...
Artist’s Way Week 3: Putting Yourself First Is Tricky
As the days and weeks pass, more and more I’m remembering why I haven’t managed to get to the end of the twelve-week ‘path’ of The Artist’s Way. For most of this week my partner was away. This meant I had to do all the parenting of my five-year-old, as well as get up...
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The good news is I am still managing to get up in the morning. Even this week, while my partner is away, which means a...
I confess, while I was reading this book, it got stains on it. There's a splash of coffee near the beginning, while I...
This is the third time I’ve started working my way through The Artist’s Way. I can see from my notes that my last...
I like to be surprised. My assumption is that crime fiction is formulaic and a little bit cheesy. Clearly I had some...
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were benevolent forces around us, helping us cope with difficult times? In The...
Warning: This article contains reference to sexual assault and violence. Today (25th November) is the International...
From the moment you enter the world of The Regeneration of Stella Yin, a novella-in-flash by Kristen Loesch, you are...
I'm always enthusiastic about any writing that celebrates women. In Jesi Bender's poetry collection Dangerous Women,...
There's something special about finding a writer who is passionate about the same things you are and brings them into...
Sometimes stories just capture the wonderful essence of what it means to be human. Of where we find our place in the...