Want to chill?

Writing, e-books, publicity, selling, holiday reads – Seven of the books I’ve written are published as e-books and Welcome to Oakhaven as paperback but there’s more to it than just putting words on a page. […]

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Writing about Scotland

– Because I write about Scotland, I’ve been accused of being a Scottish Nationalist but I write about what I know and I’ve been through all of the drove road country, so I wrote Drover. […]

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RSPB Brochure

RSPB produce brochures that tell how to make a garden that will attract butterflies and birds and provide a habitat for things birds eat. It’s ideal for teaching 7 to 10-year-olds or even teens who […]

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Bathroom Fittings

It was the bath! Eighty odd year old Annie had thought the problems over moving to the Shelter flat would be downsizing and sending her prized possessions to the Charity Shop and arranging for an […]

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Writing The Colonel’s Ducks

With Leprechaun I’ve tried to tell how I get story ideas but sometimes it’s just a follow on from something before. The Colonel’s Ducks at Oakhaven is the sequel to Welcome to Oakhaven. I’d given […]

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New story line

I don’t know about you but I feel a book needs to have a story line, something that runs through it and ties the incidents together. It was easy with the last two books, Vital […]

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Coming soon from Oakhaven

Vital Spark is published and novel number six is with the publishers and coming soon. Number six is a kind of follow up from Welcome to Oakhaven but it’s not Miss Read or Maeve Binchy. […]

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Second Sight

Second Sight   Do we have some kind of super-memory in our subconscious or do we connect with some kind of universal memory that makes us choose some things in a way that will affect […]

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