The cheque's in the post and I so hope it arrives in time to prevent my Blog coming down! Chaos is us at present. The workmen come in drifts and everything's timetable is dictated by when the plaster is dry enough for the next stage to proceed. The... Read more

Romance may very well be in the air but as far as the MS described in my 'Waiting Game' post is concerned, that's where it's staying for the present. No sale! However, I have had a success in the Filler field which I discovered by accident. A write... Read more

How easy it is to convince yourself that a month must have passed when in fact you sent out the inquiry two days ago (and thirteen hours, three minutes and 45 seconds). I have of course, after all these years trying, got used to competition judging ... Read more

I cannot bear not to be in... I so much enjoyed the New Voices competition last year but it is a bit time consuming and time is precious. However, I hate to watch something like this from the side-lines and I have always got an idea for the next nov... Read more

Gosh I wish it was as easy to lose a dress size as it is to lose the top layer from the floorboards. I'm typing this to the background sound of floor sanding upstairs. Husband mine has decided to smarten us up and you know what the average anti-soci... Read more

The Romantic Novelists' Association new writers' scheme enables wannabees like me. Even if no one else ever does, the RNA reader will read my novel - and give an honest opinion. This year it's a goodie. The scheme provides for two tiers of reading. ... Read more

It has gone. Together with the two extra lots of stamps for onward transmission and the stamped postcard to confirm arrival, it's on its way to the organiser of the new writers' scheme of the romantic novelists' association. Fingers crossed folks, ... Read more

My laptop's just come home from the clinic and the diagnosis is don't plan on writing a saga! Martin has de-bugged it; re-connected the printer (Yippee!); put on a trial of free anti-virus softwear and handed me a spec for 'The new machine. For a wr... Read more

The engineer has been and for a blissful hour the light may have shone unobserved on our Broadband home-hub. We were having lunch upstairs. Come the phone call from the call-centre to find out how it was for us and up goes the 'no-broadband' connecti... Read more

I hate snow. No matter how many words for it the Inuit have in their vocabulary, I hate it in all those guises too. Nature will not be denied her fun and if that makes the rest of us too miserable for words so much the better she seems to say. Righ... Read more