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Following the Dream
After a long break in blogging about my own writing, it’s time to stick my head above the parapet. This week has been pretty exciting. 59 Memory Lane, the book that’s been in my head for so long half-formed and bursting to be written is nearly ready to fly. The proof copies have gone out, and real people are actually reading it, maybe even at this very minute! Tonight I’m heading out to celebrate with friends from my teaching days, when writing had to be squeezed in between marking, planning, and all sorts of other vital jobs. It’s...
read moreSoldiers in World War One – A Guest Post by Freda Lightfoot (@fredalightfoot) #giveaway
Thank you so much for inviting me on your blog. I’m happy to tell you a little of what I’ve been writing lately. Soldiers in World War One Their physical and mental stress was so strong at times that it blocked out their minds, filling them with fear, grim reality, tension, strain and anxiety whenever they approached a battle zone. They would fall into silence, asking themselves if they could cope with the dangers they were about to face. They always dreaded snipers, shell shock, infections and injuries, or to be damaged with shrapnel. It...
read moreAn Interview with Carol Warham, Author of Resolutions (@carol_warham @tirgearr) #tirgearr
Many thanks for inviting me along to your blog. I’ve really enjoyed answering your questions. You’ve really made me put my thinking cap on. Interview What inspired you to write Resolutions? Some years ago we were holidaying in Disney World Florida. While we were there we visited the Disney orientated town of Celebration. For those that don’t know it, it’s a master-planned community, a town specifically designed to integrate everything a community would need and developed by the Disney Corporation. I was fascinated by the idea of the...
read moreNew Beginnings
This year has been a strange one in our house. Big decisions have been made, goodbyes have been said and the world of school has been left behind. There have been bittersweet moments, and lots of those sort of round-the-middle-hugs that only children can do. There was an amazing flash mob thing where they all danced on the playground for me and I thought it was some sort of new aerobics work out that Ofsted had introduced to make us work even harder. There were cards and letters and presents and tears. And cake. And gin. Now...
read moreRelease Blitz- Shopping for a CEO’s Fiancée by Julia Kent
Book Blurb: We skipped right over the whole fiancée thing and went straight from girlfriend to wife. At least, I think that’s what happened. I woke up after my brother’s Vegas wedding reception with my luscious girlfriend in bed with me. We’re both wearing wedding rings. So is her coworker, Josh. And our Vegas chauffeur, Geordi. Who the hell am I married to? Unraveling this mystery will be as difficult as figuring out why Amanda and I are having panic attacks over the thought of being husband and wife. Or, whoever we’re actually...
read moreGuest Blogger: Aleigha Siron (@aleighasiron) #tirgearr
Hi Celia, thanks for hosting me on your blog today. I want to chat about one of my greatest enjoyments, seeking out wild places to recharge my batteries. I’ll open with a favorite epigraph: “In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” ~ Henry David Thoreau At the outset, I must acknowledge that I’m not a great hiker, definitely not a mountain or rock-climbing enthusiast, but I do find wilderness the only place where my internal batteries fully recharge. So even if it’s just a drive up a jutted dirt road not on the map, along a...
read moreSharon Black Discusses Her Fortnightly Column (@Authorsharonb) #tirgearr #romcom
Hi Celia, Thank you so much for having me here on your blog today. I thought I’d chat about something that has become very important for me: the fortnightly Monday column that I write for my blog, This Funny Irish Life. First, and most importantly, it is my link as a writer, to my readers. Once my debut was published, I buried myself once again in writing. But while that’s happening, it’s so easy to become invisible again. And to forget that when you are writing, you do so with one perfect reader in mind. That’s how my blog began....
read moreScandalously Yours…
When you go way, way back in history to write books, history tends to get mixed with legend, as is the case with Cornelia Amiri’s Timeless Journey. Some authors, like Ann Jacobs, go farther. Ann inserted not only Cornish legends but also a paranormal explanation for the curse her hero endured in Beneath a Cornish Moon. The protagonists in Cornelia’s story buck the Celtic community’s traditions by allowing her reincarnated Roman lover to live; the curse over the earldom in Ann’s story disappears when its cause is destroyed. Scandal,...
read moreWalking back to happiness…about stress, and how to ditch it.
I’ve never really come face to face with full-on, exhausting, completely debilitating stress before. Over the last six weeks, trying to deal with a long build up of anxiety, panic attacks and deep sadness brought on by post-Ofsted helplessness and frustration, I’ve learned what it means to want to give up. But a combination of a sensible doctor (‘take time out, get some fresh air and exercise and step back from work – you’re not letting them down; you’re making yourself strong again’), a very...
read moreLessons Learned When Writing The Dragon in The Garden by Erika Gardner
So, just when I think I’m starting to figure things out, the other shoe invariably drops. It happens every dang time. Honestly, it’s not such bad thing. It’s good to shake things up. Dragon was the second book that I completed. The first was an epic fantasy that I have been forced to shove into a drawer. It’s crap. Well, it’s crap with glimmers. But I digress. The Dragon in The Garden was the first book that I finished and thought, huh, we might have something here. Of course, that’s a common enough experience for writers in the...
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