NaNoWriMo 2016 has begun
And I’m not doing it this year. I want to focus on finishing my novel and editing the first two if I get the chance, plus I’m helping a friend by editing her novel and I have that MA to study for....
View ArticleUni: Week 6 – we had a visitor!
Today started off spectacularly: I managed to catch the slightly earlier college bus and got to Grimsby by nine, took a stroll to the train station and didn’t feel rushed when buying the ticket and...
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Timorous wee beasties. Not. Annual cold and ‘flu on behalf of my beleaguered...
We sincerely thank everyone who gets vaccinated for the ‘flu and who doesn’t cough their cold viruses at us. Tissues at the ready, if you please. Morning all. I couldn’t sleep so I got up. I have to...
View ArticleUni Week 7: Disturbing news
Poetry is over and I had to hand in my assignment. This was daunting, it’s been a long time since I’ve had to do something like that. The tutor has taken them home today to mark over the weekend. I...
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Review: ‘A Daughter’s Deadly Deception’, by Jeremy Grimaldi
Published by: Dundern Publication Date: 6th December 2016 I.S.B.N.: 9781459735248 Blurb A sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets. From the outside...
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Review: ‘South’, by Frank Owen
Published by: Corvus Books (Atlantic Books) Publication Date: 7th July 2016 I.S.B.N.: (Paperback) 9781782399612, (Ebook) 978178239812 Price: £12.99 (Paperback) Book received from publisher in return...
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Review: ‘Ice and Bone’, by Monte Francis
Publication Date: 19th April 2016 Published by: WIldBlue Press I.S.B.N.: 9781942266402 Blurb On a clear, brisk night in September of 2000, 33-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and...
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True crime reviews
Afternoon readers, I’ve been doing a bit of light reading lately, with two true crime books from WildBlue Press. Netgalley provided them in return for an honest review. I.S.B.N.: 9781942266440...
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Review: ‘For the love of Emily’, by Joy Wood
Joy Wood is a local author, a nurse in Grimsby, that I met at a local authors event at Grimsby Central Library in the summer. What with Paris, university and being under the weather, it’s taken me a...
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Uni: Week 10 – Poetry results and two more assignments to get through.
Interesting day today; we actually started and finished the morning workshop on time. We had a bit of a mixed session, giving feedback on submitted work, content about writing short stories was...
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