I have never attended a writing festival before. There was always an excuse. I didn’t have money to spend on such an extravagance, I wasn’t a proper writer (this one worked for many years until I actually got an agent in 2019), I didn’t have time, between renovations, working and looking after holiday makers (this …
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As some of you might know, I’ve been working on The Love Project for seven years. Wow! Seven years is a very long time. I’m not going to lie. I’ve had my fair share of periods of despair, discouragement and wallowing, as I was trying to balance the demands of work, moving countries, renovating houses, setting up a new business, being married and wanting …
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a single girl who really wanted to be loved. She also really wanted to be a writer. Despite the fact that she didn’t lack talent, she had an amiable disposition and relatively no disfigurement to talk about, she didn’t believe that she had …
Don’t you just hate Valentine’s Day? If you’re single, you wish you had someone to share it with, someone to bring you flowers and chocolate (or to bring to) and kiss and cuddle with on a cold February evening. If you’re in a couple, then you feel like you ought to do something special, but …
Anna Karenina vs. Bathsheba Everdene One of my new year’s resolutions for 2016 was to read more classics and so far I’m on schedule with ’Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy and ’Far From the Madding Crowd’ by Thomas Hardy already under my belt, with Vladimir Nabokov’s ’Lolita’ as my current commute companion. I didn’t pick …
I can’t believe it, it’s that time of the year again! No, I’m not talking about the time of the year when everyone goes crazy with Christmas shopping, when every advert of TV aims to convey the Christmas ’spirit’ of more money spending or when Starbucks cups turn from green to red and Gingerbread Latte …
When I started The Love Project I had no idea it was going to be somewhat a way for me to settle the accounts with my father. I started it as an exercise to find a boyfriend, frustrated by years on end of being serially single, not realising that the relationship with my father had …
A couple of months ago I was approached by newsignedbooks.com for an interview. You can imagine my excitement! NEWS(i g n e d)BOOKs was founded in 2014 by Carl Marsh. It’s an online magazine which either publishes reviews, articles or interviews with personalites from the fields of music, film, TV, social media, sport and the arts. Below …
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I have observed an interesting phenomenon in my life as of late. Ever since my speaking engagement at the Heart Centred Women in Business Conference on Oct 9th, I am revered to as a professional. My book is not yet finished, but there is no question about its legitimacy and quality when it will be …
It was at the writing retreat back in September that I started reading Cheryl Strayed’s memoir ’Wild’. I was asked to pick a book that was close to my own story and analyse the way it was written. I chose the passage of her mother’s death and read it out loud: ’I howled and howled …
