I am delighted to have received my first award for my word and thats a Readers Favorite Award: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The award is for Isolation Junction which is my debut novel, published in October 2016. Here is why my book has received the award; Reviewed by Lesley...
I am delighted to welcome Laura Moreno-Davis who I met virtually through the weekly discussion #AbuseTalk that I host as a Twitter Chat each Wednesday evening 8-9pm GMT. I particularly admire Laura's work as narcissistic abuse is rather complex and often...
Today is Blue Monday and I touched a little on this last week, if you haven't heard of Blue Monday then in a nutshell it is meant to be the most depressing day of the year. You can find out more on my previous blog post here. So I am posting the 'real' me and I've...
Walls of Silence by Helen Pryke is FREE on Amazon Kindle from the 12-16th January. I am honoured to be sharing this with you all as Helen is in fact one of the contributors to my latest publication of Clipped Wings. The blurb Living in the mountains of...
Today is the last day of the first ever free promotion I have ever created. Since Monday, Isolation Junction has been available to download on Amazon Kindle for £0. I am delighted that many have taken up the opportunity to download and resulting in it...
Delighted to be bringing this review to you today. Not my usual type of review on here but I am sharing it with you all because it is a perfect book to take your mind of every day life, snuggle up on your sofa or in your duvet with a hot drink and enjoy....
Delighted to have finished my first read of 2018. I was given a copy of this book for an honest review, I chose this book to review because of the similarities I have with the abuse that runs through. The Blurb Mothers are supposed to love their...
I cannot believe I am reviewing everything from 2017 and looking at 2018 and my To Be Read list. Here is a simple summary from Goodreads. I absolutely love Goodreads as you can set yourself a challenge of how many books to read in a year and keep an eye on...
I cannot believe it is the end of December already and we will shortly be saying goodbye to 2017 and hello to 2018. I have just looked back at December thinking I hadn't done too much but I have a lot to wrap up for you and I am surprised at how much has...
I am delighted to share with you all some very awesome Harry Potter gifts, any fan's perfect gift. I have a brilliant excuse for this because it was a very good friends 30th Birthday and so I created a Harry Potter hamper as she is a big fan and times we...
Join L.T. Marshall as she celebrates her 1 year publiversary of The Carrero Effect. Fun and games with some of your favourite authors… Join now!! In fact I am delighted to be involved in the publiversary party, I connected with author L.T. Marshalll not...
As part of my slot in this years online pop-up book shop event the other week I asked everyone what freedom meant to them. The reason why I ask is because I never appreciated what freedom truly meant until I left the abusive relationship I was in. In fact...
Yesterday I had a fabulous meet up with some of the Stoke on Trent Capital of Culture bidding team for 2021. Results if they win the bid are this evening. How I came about this is a little surreal but a lovely tale in itself. I had met a gentleman called...
I am delighted to be taking part in Helen's cover reveal, not only because I have an exclusive interview but because I have featured her work on my blog before now. Find out what I thought about her short story Autumn Sky and her novel Walls of Silence....
Today we have the 2nd online pop-up book shop on Facebook. Last year I hosted a first event just to see how it went and this year it was requested to take place again by a couple of authors, it must have been a success for them which is fantastic. Here we...
On Saturday evening (for the UK) Bookies went live on their Facebook page sharing both Isolation and Clipped Wings. Jessica Page Johnson was the lovely lady sending out share the love Saturday. Jessica is in fact mentioned in Clipped wings twice as she has...
Despite October being the month that saw the release of Clipped Wings, November was a busy month with the remaining part of the blog tour as well as the general excitement of the launch hitting the social world of media. So here is November's wrap up;...
I met Helen virtually via Facebook a few months ago and I am so glad we have connected. Helen and I both have something in common and that is of the abuse we have suffered, we are both now authors and have our own stories to tell. I will share more about...
As something different I started an online course on writing fiction, joining with connections I have made in a writing group on Facebook that I am admin for. I thought it would be a great way to get other student views and is completely free. This was a...
I have decided to pop these reviews together because they link together not only by author but also by her writing style, they are both non-fiction and they both bring the feelings and reality of abuse to the reader. I first connected with Rachel on...
Two years ago today I got married to someone who has seen me go through the hardest of times and helped me out of them. I will let an extract of Clipped Wings from the acknowledgements explain... "Without the support of my husband, I wouldn’t be where I am...
The online launch of Clipped Wings was something I was very excited about and I had planned it to run alongside the blog tour lasting a week. Of course the big push was on the day of release itself and there was a lot to write about, at this moment you can...
October, what a month! I have to admit October has had its high's and its low's but I know what I am able to get through anything with this month putting me through its pace's in my personal life. I am hoping November will be a little calmer as I have so...
“A blog tour is just like an old-fashioned book tour – where an author traveled from city to city signing books at different book stores or events – except you are traveling from blog to blog and never have to leave home or take off your comfy pink bunny...
Its two weeks before Clipped Wings is due to be released and it is officially the day to reveal the book cover! I could not be more excited about this because the lady who designed the cover worked very well with my ideas, sketches and images. Georgina...