In praise of needs must A few weeks ago I had the good fortune to be invited to a Book Reveal party for Life in the Camel Lane by my friend, Doreen Cumberford. Doreen’s book, about life in Saudi Arabia, was inspired … Read More
COVID lockdown can’t stop our courses This lockdown has made such a massive difference to the way I do business and the way I reach out to my ‘tribe’. If you are reading this now, then yes, that’s you! In … Read More
Curiosity –> Inspiration –> Creativity: Ten things I learned from re-reading Big Magic I recently joined a business book club and last month saw me hosting the circle and picking the book. In the end Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert was chosen and … Read More
Writers’ events go online This week I should have been in Italy at the Watermill in Posara, teaching my usual How to Write Life Stories class to 12 residential guests. I should have been teaching on the vine terrace, at … Read More
20 tips for writing an expat memoir for our book award There are now just three months to go until entries close for our book award in memory of Lindsay de Feliz, our much-loved author, here at Summertime Publishing and … Read More
Have you embraced this new normal? These may be times of social distancing but my social life is busier than it’s been for years. We are now ‘meeting’ friends in foreign fields for coffees, cocktails, catch-ups and games not once … Read More
How to write better with TA and the 4 Cs Sounds like a rock band, doesn’t it, reader? Well, here we are again at The Inspiring Bit. Another month of lockdown has gone by and an increasing number of people … Read More
A little lockdown poetry inspired by Roger McGough’s ‘Today is Not a Day for Adultery’ Like many of us, when lockdown hit I decided it was time to adjust my business a little and take my writers’ circles online. I’ve … Read More
Word painting 31/3/2020 A few weeks ago, back in the world where we were allowed to go to the cinema, Ian and I went to see Lowry and Son starring Timothy Spall as the painter and Vanessa Redgrave as his bedridden, stifling, … Read More
It forced me to do it. I’ve been resisting running an online writers’ circle for, like, forever. But now that social contact is an impossibility and bearing in mind that my live, monthly writers’ circle has been my lifeline for … Read More
