To the round-up! Work Published in 2016 In January my story ‘The Water Museum’ was released online in Holdfast Magazine‘s Issue 8:Love,...

Some of the Manchester Spec Fic group at the con This time last weekend I was at my first Eastercon, Mancunicon. It wasn’t my first SFF...

I don’t normally comment on politics, on news, on things outside of my writing life in this blog. But I’ve decided to do something a...

It’s late in the month but it’s still January so I’ll attempt one of these review/ preview things. Reading Through my fortnightly book...

Ever since I started reading fantasy novels as a child, I, along with most other fans of the genre, have loved a blacksmith. The...

This blog has been sorely neglected due to a wedding, a postgraduate degree and finding things like Twitter are so much faster. I decided...

With the Paralympics currently on in London, I thought it would be very topical to discuss disability. There have been a lot of TV...

I had settled down to watch How I Met Your Mother (*S17 E16 spoiler alert*) last night and halfway through the episode spontaneously...

Some of the girls at the school I work at have started bringing in skipping ropes. I was pleasantly surprised that children as young as 4...

I have recently joined a book group and members had commented on their interest in my choice in books, due to having a degree in English...

Have just come home from a fantastic holiday in Iceland. When I was a teenager I read about the aurora borealis in Iceland and wanted to...

I know it’s cheesy and commercialised but I love the run up to Christmas. I possibly love it more now than when I was a child because I...

I randomly started a book yesterday because I had a vague recollection of the author’s name. At this stage I don’t want to reveal what...

I’m too tired to think of a proper blogging subject today. So instead, things that children have said to me over the years: Why do you...

It struck me today that arts and crafts are still seen as something mainly for children. If not kits aimed at children (jewellery making,...

Everyone likes having friends, but the friends we have at different stages of our life change. When I was in primary school I was friends...

Vintage is a word which has become a phenomenon in the last few years. It used to be second-hand or used, but change the word to vintage...

I’m reading the bookWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver for a book club I recently joined. It’s not something I would pick up...

Today I went along to the relaunch of the Portsmouth Writers’ Hub. Having only moved here a little over two months ago, I was unaware of...

It defines us all. It’s the first thing you notice about a person and if you can’t pinpoint it, it drives you mad. And at the end of the...