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It’s not that I don’t like the real world, I just prefer not to live there full-time. — M T McGuire, 2012
Follow me as I seek my literary fortune.
Real treasure isn’t always shiny #writing #metaldetecting
Opening a little window on the world of metal detecting today, and chatting about gold, not comedy gold, like last week but kind of tenuously linked gold … Oh, I’ll just get on with it shall I? A few months back, the finds liaison bod who attends both the clubs I go to and asked us to […]
September 30, 2017If I’d made this up, no-one would believe me. #dementia
Today, back to real life, sort of, in so far as my life is often like a badly scripted sitcom. Here’s an example. As you know because heaven knows, I bang on about it incessantly, I am pre-menopausal. Basically, I feel pregnant and teary the entire time, and I have no memory. The only difference is that there’s no baby […]
September 23, 2017Searching for the truth, at all costs #TallFamilyTales
As you will learn from reading this account, I was a perfectly horrible child in many respects and few stories reflect me in a poorer light than the one I am about to share. Sometimes the difference between genius and madness is failure. Other times, it’s a simple case of the idea being crap. This is the tale of an […]
September 16, 2017A surprise house guest.
A bit from one of my works in progress.
September 9, 2017Sad
A bit about my editor, who died on 13th August, 2017
September 2, 2017Books anyone? A few words about MTMail, building a fanbase and Instafreebie. #bookmarketing
A bit about fanbase building, or mailing list building…
August 26, 2017Smashingly non-expensive books alert!
A bit of news, some special offers on other sci-fi books and a little bit more from McMini.
August 5, 2017Mind Expansion Anyone? #McMini #kids #parenting #children
Over the holidays I thought it would be fun to tell some of the funny stories about my family. There is ‘Catching Socks’, ‘Night of the Homeless Man’, ‘Tale of the Drowning Toddler’ and a famous one about my Mum for which I have no title, as yet. However, I thought I would leave that for later because obviously, it […]
July 29, 2017When the luck unicorn farts …
You’d better be ready. Yes, smashing things are afoot, in writing world anyway, and for once it’s not me blundering into something and breaking it. Something unusual and rather wonderful has happened this week, my book, Escape From B-Movie Hell has been accepted for a bookbub promotion. Now, I can imagine you might be thinking, ‘Mmm yes […]
July 21, 2017Meh and un-meh. Thoughts, ramblings and a progress report.
It’s confession time. I’ve been in a bit of a slump recently because we’ve reached a new stage in Dad’s illness and I’m still adjusting to the grimness. If someone you love has dementia then there will be stuff they say when you know it’s the illness speaking, rather than them. Over the last three of four months, […]
July 15, 2017