Book bloggers are so important to authors these days, with ever-diminishing space in newspapers and magazines for reviews, and I’ve been...

The Keeper of Songs is published today and the audio drama adaptation is also released today. Having stated my working life in radio,...

The Keeper of Songs is published tomorrow. It's inspired by folk music, and I've written a feature for Historia Magazine about why old...

I've been working with the brilliant team at Alternative Stories on an audio drama adaptation of The Keeper of Songs, featuring actresses...

I've been working with Alternative Stories on an audio drama adaptation my new book, The Keeper of Songs. Starring actress Amy Forrest,...

I found the recent World Monuments Fund's webinar, ’Historic Houses: The True Stars of Period Dramas' fascinating - both as someone how...

It’s International Women’s Day, so here are nine wonderful female folk musicians who I have had the huge pleasure of listening to and...

The Keeper of Songs Publication Date: June 2021 (Snowglobe Books) Secrets hide in the strangest places * A missing singer A doomed love...

Today is World Book Day and this month is Women’s History Month, so given that all of my books are inspired by women in history, what...

So I’ve learned several things this month. Indie authors need to buy their own ISBNs and when I went to purchase my bundle of 10 and...

I was asked to write this blog by the Romantic Novelists Association's Romance Reading Month. For our second post on #RNAIndieAuthors...

Excitingly, and fittingly, since it’s a story about a song, my new novel ‘The Keeper of Songs’ will be a musical audio drama before it’s...

The adage ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ isn’t really true of - well - books, is it? I know I’m a fairly harsh judge. I’m drawn to buy...

Ten years ago when my marriage, my family and my personal life in general was falling apart, a friend asked me a probing question which...

I always write to music. Not necessarily music that's obviously connected to what I'm writing about; it just needs to conjure the right...

‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.’ Poet Laurence Binyon wrote ‘For the Fallen’ as he sat looking...

My favourite stories in books and films are often the ones that contain a nugget of fact. I’ve just finished reading ‘Unsheltered’ by...

Just discovered TripFiction - like a glossy holiday brochure for book loving armchair travellers! I love reading books set in places I...

During the Royal Entomological Society’s National Insect Week, who better to celebrate than Eleanor Glanville, who I came to admire so...

Near the top of my 'to be read' pile of books is 'Rodham' by Curtis Sittenfield, which asks, 'What if Hilary hadn't married Bill,' and I...