April 2017
Well, what a frugal month! My writing brain has been a little like Mother Hubbard's cupboard... I did manage to produce 700 words in...
March 2017
Not so much to report this month! Looking through my catalogue of writing, I noticed a few 100-worders which had not been published...
February 2017
I am a member of The Poetry Society and get regular copies of The Poetry Review, which are jam-packed with fabulous poetry, interviews...
January 2017
Some time ago I came across KART, a site for children's book reviews. Authors can submit their books, but must then wait with crossed...
December 2016
I received the winter edition of The Caterpillar. Here is the children's poem that they published. This month I submitted three rhyming...
November 2016
Not many submissions this month! I was busy instead redesigning some of my book covers. I finally entered the Reader's Digest 100-word...
October 2016
I have recently come across The Emma Press ('small press, big dreams'). What is different about them is that rather than charge a...
September 2016
Every year I enter the Adult Fairy Story Competition run by Writing Magazine, and have been shortlisted once or twice. It's a great genre...
August 2016
A few years back, I submitted one of my children's books to The Chicken House. It almost got published... almost! At the final hurdle, it...
July 2016
The One Word Challenge is a monthly competition which takes place on Writers Talkback, the online writing forum run by Writing Magazine....
