Womag and other writing

We're now back home (which doesn't mean the travel photos will stop!) and appreciating those little things which you take for grante...

Just after eight this morning, I received a response to my request for information about the future of the magazine.   As I'd said I was...

I've had a few questions, and seen some rumours about the future of TAB FF. Sorry, I don't know anything! I've emailed asking fo...

Back in 2019, I submitted my first story to The People’s Friend – a 9500-word ‘long crime read’. It was set in Van Diemen’s Land (present d...

We've visited quite a few big gardens on our recent travels, as well as walking through woods and countryside full of wild flowers. Here...

We're still on our travels and having a great time – and managing a little bit of writing. Photos are of 'long strand' on Islay....

We're still on our adventures, still having a great time. The pictures are recent views from the mobile writing retreat. I post these da...

We've been doing a lot of travelling over the last week, both in the van on foot. The weather has been (mostly) fabulous and we've t...

We delayed the start of our trip as long as we could, in the hopes of getting the office sorted before we left home. Unfortunately that wasn...

The progress of our office installation has been so complicated, changeable and stressful that I daren't give you all the details in cas...

The photo is of our lovely new office which was fitted by Sharps in March – except obviously it wasn't. We've had several cancellati...

Oh dear - another week when I've got the alert that the blog post is live before I'd finished writing it! I rather suspect that migh...

I've heard reports of new, and slightly confusing, guidelines for The People's Friend having been posted on Twitter yesterday. Given...

I'll be spending all of today amongst people who have crime on their minds, as I'm a participating author in a crime literary festiv...

 Free entry writing competitions On the Premises have a new mini competition . This time they want two stories, but even if you use the maxi...