Are crime writers guilty
Are crime writers guilty of murder, or something worse? Image via Wikipedia The Sisters in Crime blog started me thinking, when they asked this question – “Does it bother you, that you write murder as entertainment?” I’m in the middle of writing my first crime novel at the moment, and I’ve been reading crime fiction [...]
Weird, wonderful words to inspire the next generation
You know how you get all those emails from friends …. takes you half an hour to scroll down through all the forwarding bits until you finally get to the link and think, “this had better be worth it….” This morning I got one of those and – being snowed in and therefore stuck to [...]
Dolly Daydream
was always one of my nicknames when I was growing up. When we are children, are always being told that we need to concentrate, to pay attention, to focus on the job in hand. When we grow up, it’s a little bit more subtle but it is a variant on the same theme. We need [...]
The blogwatcher – Great Content is not King.
Like most things in life, I am late to blogging. When other business people were blogging their thoughts and interests and becoming citizen journalists, I was busy starting my second family. Image by Getty Images via Daylife A dear friend and a person that dishes out good advice one referred to me as a blog [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
To delete or not to delete? That is the question?
I run a number of blogs, for myself and for clients, and participate in a few others, such as this one. And for the main part they tick along nicely – I write about what I know on my own blog, and what I’ve been briefed about on my clients’ blogs, monitor and reply to [...]
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